Agriculture Sec Brooke Rollins quote: "Well, we're holding 1 billion back. So today we are announcing 11 billion. We are holding 1 billion back just to ensure that we are covering ...so today's announcement covers all of our all of our row crops...but some specialty crops and others that we are still working with to best understand where they are in the farm economy and ensure that we're making every forward moving position that we need to..."
BREAKING (via WH press pool)
#Agriculture Sec Brooke #Rollins says at WH event for #FarmAid that #Trump admin is giving $11B in aid, w/ an add'l $1B being held in reserve.
Trump told her it was $12B in aid, but Rollins said it's actually $11B in aid w/ $1B extra in reserve.
#Economy #Farmers #Ag