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Trump provides record aid to farmers
$46 billion in direct payments almost doubles previous record set in 2005
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Ted CoxU.S. Steel, U.S. Steel Granite City Works, Donald Trump, Trump Trade War, Trump Tariffs, Trump Tariff Farm Bailouts, USDA, George W. Bush, Farm Bill, Farm Market Facilitation Program, Joe Janzen, Nick Paulson
Trump ad touts jobs at steel mill hit by layoffs
Trump visited U.S. Steel’s Granite City Works in 2018 — now threatened with 737 furloughs
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, U.S. Steel, U.S. Steel Granite City Works, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Trump Trade War, Trump Tariffs, Trump Tariff Farm Bailouts, Dick Durbin, General Accountability Office, Tony Fuhrmann, Dan Simmons, United Steelworkers, Douglas Matthews
91 Fortune 500 firms paid no 2018 U.S. taxes
List includes Deere, U.S. Steel, FedEx, Chevron, Netflix, GM, Starbucks, Amazon
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Ted CoxU.S. Budget Deficit, Fortune 500, Donald Trump, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, U.S. Corporate Tax Rate, Trump Tax Cuts, Deere, U.S. Steel, FedEx, Chevron, Netflix, General Motors, Starbucks, Amazon
Trump tariff bailout goes to biggest farms
Top 1 percent got average of $183,000, while bottom 80 percent averaged $5,000
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Trump Tariffs, Trump Trade War, USDA, Environmental Working Group, Farm Market Facilitation Program, New Food Economy, U.S. Steel, U.S. Steel Granite City Works, Illinois Soybean Growers, Illinois Farm Bureau, Richard Guebert Jr., World Trade Organization
Trump's trade-war reparations go on
President drops another $5 billion on farmers who insist they’d rather just have free trade
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Ted CoxTrump Trade War, Donald Trump, Lynn Rohrscheib, Sonny Perdue, USDA, Farm Bill, Doug Schroeder, Illinois Soybean Growers, Illinois Soybean Association, U.S. Steel, Granite City Works, U.S. Steel Granite City Works
Trump touts trade war in Granite City
President attempts to unify steelworkers, farmers in speech at U.S. Steel Works
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President Trump visits Illinois
Granite City splits over whether Trump tariffs deserve credit for reopened steel mill
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, U.S. Tariffs, U.S. Steel, Granite City Works, Working Families, United Steelworkers, Novel Idea Bookstore, Ernie & Annie's, Gary Gaines, Mike Bost, Brendan Kelly, Rodney Davis, John Shimkus, J.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, Action Metro East, Piasa Palisades Group, Piasa Palisades Sierra Club, Chicago Women Take Action
Trump trade war cuts both ways
Granite City steel mill reopens, but Illinois soybean and hog farmers dread Chinese tariffs
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Andy Manar, Granite City, U.S. Steel, Lynn Rohrscheib, Illinois Soybean Growers, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Brookings Institution, Mark Muro, CNBC, Christine McCracken, Capitol Fox, Ivanka Trump, U.S. Tariffs, Trump Trade War