{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-president-trump-announces-12-billion-farmer-bridge-assistance-for-producers", "Hoeven: President Trump Announces $12 Billion Farmer Bridge Assistance for Producers", "2025-12-08", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "ND", "John Hoeven", "H001061", "www.hoeven.senate.gov", "hoeven", "https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "Hoeven: President Trump Announces $12 Billion Farmer Bridge Assistance for Producers\n\nSenator Working with Trump Administration to Support Farmers and Ranchers\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee, today joined an agriculture roundtable at the White House with President Donald Trump and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to announce $12 billion in assistance to help the nation\u2019s agriculture producers. The Farmer Bridge Assistance program will be administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with assistance expected to be distributed by the end of February 2026.\n\n\u201cBetween China targeting our producers, rising input costs and other challenges, our producers are really going through a tough stretch. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve been working with the Trump administration to advance agriculture assistance to serve as a bridge to the improvements we made to crop insurance, ARC and PLC in the One Big Beautiful Bill,\u201d said Hoeven. \u201cThis assistance will not only help our producers in the short-term but will ensure they aren\u2019t used as leverage as the administration continues to negotiate for more markets and better long-term trade agreements. We appreciate President Trump, Secretary Rollins and Secretary Bessent for their work on this and will continue working to help our producers through this tough stretch.\u201d\n\nDuring President Trump\u2019s first term, Hoeven worked with the administration to put in place similar agriculture assistance when U.S. producers were targeted during trade negotiations. Today\u2019s announcement builds on that program and is part of a number of initiatives Hoeven has been working on to help North Dakota and the nation\u2019s agriculture producers. Additionally, the senator has been working with the administration to:\n\nSecure additional agriculture sales, including the recently announced soybean purchases by China.\n\nAdvance year-round E15 sales.\n\nPut in place better long-term trade agreements to open markets for producers.\n\n-###-", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-president-trump-announces-12-billion-farmer-bridge-assistance-for-producers"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.9766408950090408, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}