President Donald Trump’s plan to use tariff revenue to bail out farmers could be stalled by the ongoing government shutdown.

Trump said last month the administration would roll out subsidies for struggling farmers using revenue from his sweeping tariff policies. The White House will imminently announce a bailout plan that could put up to $15 billion in farmers’ pockets, Reuters reported , citing anonymous sources. Trump has said the aid would come from tariff revenues, but experts say that’s far easier said than done.

“How to fund this bailout is very complicated, and different than it was in 2018,” Joe Glauber, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture during Trump’s first term, told Fortune. “You’d need Congress to reallocate tariff revenues. USDA can’t just

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