A ‘soybean farmer’ himself, Treasury Sec. Bessent said he’s feeling ‘pain’ from China, too

By Elisabeth Buchwald, Alicia Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of thousands of American soybean farmers are suffering from a monthslong effective embargo by China as part of a global trade war. Among them: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “I’m actually a soybean farmer,” Bessent said over the weekend in an ABC News interview. “I have felt