Amid a war in the Middle East, a primary challenger from Minnesota and slipping poll numbers, President Joe Biden will kick off what aides are calling a "barnstorming" of rural America with a visit to a farm just north of Northfield today. The trip to Dutch Creek Farms in rural Dakota County is billed by the White House as a chance to spotlight farmers who are leaning on recent federal .
At a rally in South Dakota Friday, former President Donald Trump said Florida Gov. Ron Desantis had “sided with the communists in China” over U.S. farmers. “He strongly opposed my protection for our farmers,” Trump said of DeSantis. “I protected our farmers, very simply, and by the way those farmers got big checks.” When DeSantis…
These subsidies are leading to deforestation, premature deaths and dwindling fish stocks, causing environmental havoc, the World Bank has said in a new report. They should instead be repurposed to fight climate change
do you want to cut defense spending? absolutely not. by the way, that s the position of the republicans. do you want to cut social security spending, absolutely not. do you want to cut medicare spending, absolutely not. the three things i just named for you are 3/4 of the federal budget, so in the abstract people want to cut spending, when you actually get into what those cuts are, whether it s farm subsidies or medicare, social security, at that point nobody wants to cut spending. saying that you want to cut spending is a little bit like saying, do you want to eat ice cream, yes, i want to eat kis i.c.e. ice cream, i i do that for a long period of time, there s going to be implications. you re willing to say i want to cut medicare, social security, defense sfepending, you re just talking about ice cream. congressman jim himes, as usual, thank you so much for joining us. thank you, wolf. chilling information about the man accused of ramming a