White House weighs farm subsidies in repeat of first-term Trump policy

President Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins are considering a new round of direct payments to farmers affected by U.S. tariffs and trading partners’ retaliation, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Rollins -- though a final decision on the policy might not come for “months.” And Trump himself recently highlighted on social media that he issued tariff subsidies to farmers during his first term, but stopped short of explicitly promising to repeat it, deepening uncertainty on the...