Source: ROLL CALL, 3/819


Talk about a sweetener. An arcane provision moving through Congress as part of must-pass disaster aid legislation would let farmers earning more than $900,000 on average for the past three years qualify for President Donald Trump’s $12 billion program compensating producers for trade-related losses. Ostensibly, the language would benefit any well-to-do farmers and ranchers. But the obscure $2 million provision was designed specifically with one constituency in mind, according to congressional aides: growers of fresh sweet cherries, predominantly in Washington state.

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