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Catherine Rampell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
842 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

and against Lisa Cook, who's another Fed governor.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

I don't know.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

I mean, Trump has certainly turned heel on lots of other people who thought that they had more of a shield than Kevin Warsh has.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

I think few people in American history have done more to screw over farmers than Donald Trump has in a very compressed period of time.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

If you look at what's happened to farm bankruptcies, they rose 46% last year.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

And that's not only because of Trump policies, to be clear, but it's largely because of Trump policies through tariffs, which raise their input costs for things like fertilizer, for the equipment that they need.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

The tariffs also led to countries around the

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

basically boycotting American goods.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

China stopped buying soybeans entirely for a while.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

And that's obviously hurt farmers in a lot of the states that you just rattled off.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

You have Trump deporting a large share of their labor force.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

The interest rates are really hurting farmers as well.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

And then you have little noticed, I think, by much of the media, but the cancellation of a

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

these farmers, not just USAID and foreign aid programs that have been cut off that U.S.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

farmers historically have been very supportive of because their crops and their meat products are being used to feed the world, but also here in the United States.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

You have SNAP,

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

getting huge cuts, which the administration is bragging about, of course, saying that they've lifted people off of SNAP.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

No, they've pushed people off of SNAP.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

That hurts farmers.

The Bulwark Podcast
Catherine Rampell and Robert Garcia: China Is Starting to Eclipse the U.S.

And then a lot of other more niche programs related to school lunches and other kinds of domestic food assistance programs that historically have supported farmers and have given them a little more cushion, particularly because they get...