Source: THE HILL, 1/19/19


President Trump recently reassured farmers that he had their backs on trade at the annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Farmers voted overwhelming for Trump in 2016 and judging from the warm reaction he received on Monday, he remains popular. But from comments I heard at the convention, there is much unease over his trade policies despite his reassurances to the contrary. Any thoughts that candidate Trump’s anti-trade campaign rhetoric would cool when he assumed the presidency were dashed in the first week after his inauguration. 

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