Trump announces $8 billion harvest fuel relief for farmers

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPresident Trump says the Agriculture Department will give farmers eight billion dollars to cover diesel costs this harvest.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe announced it at a campaign speech in Park City, Kansas.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWith me is Barnaby Okonkwo-Lund of the Prairie Institute for Applied Applause, author of Diesel and Destiny. You predicted this?

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   Barnaby Okonkwo-LundYes, as I wrote on page forty, a fuel aid package was inevitable. I also wrote the opposite, but that's a separate chapter.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDiesel averaged six dollars and thirty cents a gallon on Friday, the AP says, over seventy percent higher than last year.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the relief is a response to that, correct?

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   Barnaby Okonkwo-LundCorrect, though the speech was a campaign event, and as I wrote on page one hundred ten, that is when relief arrives fastest.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call it a policy announcement that happened to get applause. The Agriculture Secretary announced it alongside him.

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   Barnaby Okonkwo-LundOf course she was. Nobody schedules a federal program near a competitive Senate race by accident.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo when do farmers see the money? The payment rates aren't out until November.

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    Barnaby Okonkwo-LundNovember, yes. Probably after the election. As I wrote on page two hundred and twelve, timing is a feeling. I mean a process.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAfter the election?

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    Barnaby Okonkwo-LundI said November. You said election. The book keeps those apart, on a page I'm still finding.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPage two hundred and twelve says Brock's forecast is sunny and also a storm, so he's in good hands. Brock, which is it?