Top Democrat assails Trump’s $16B trade bailout for farmers

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A top Democrat says President Donald Trump’s $16 billion bailout for farmers hurt by the trade war with China unfairly picks winners and losers, pitting the South against the North and small farms against wealthy producers.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, of Michigan, is the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee. She says Trump’s trade agenda has irreparably harmed farmers.
She leveled the charges Tuesday in a letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdu