A few months into its new era, ‘60 Minutes’ still feels like ‘60 Minutes’
On Sunday night’s “60 Minutes,” correspondent Cecilia Vega reported on U.S. farmers who fear losing their farms after China stopped buying soybeans in retaliation for the White House’s reciprocal tariffs strategy.
The story reported that struggling American farmers feel betrayed and are outraged by President Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout to Argentina.
Vega reported that nearly 80% of voters in what are called farming-dependent counties voted for Trump in the last election. One farmer told Vega, “I feel like a lot of American farmers, cattle people, it’s a lot, a lot of people probably feel let down currently now. Maybe there’s a method to the madness, you know, that’s still to be seen.”
OK, so that was one story on “60 Minutes.”
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