Future for the midterm elections but here is what the Democrat Ralph Northam said early this morning about all of this. He said, we are the bellweather people are looking at us to see what direction we go in it. They want a governor who has some fire in his belly who will stand up to the detrimental policies coming out of washington and someone who can take virginia to the next level. So that was Ralph Northam, he did vote earlier this morning as did his opponent republican ed g illespie, who voted earlier this morning. Now President Trump who has tweeted on be half of ed gilles pie, you might say campaigned but he did that without coming to virginia, now robocalls to gel espy supporters to get them to the polls the president telling them if you let Ralph Northam be governor he will be a total disaster for your state. Hes weak on crime, weak on immigration and is your lt. Governor hes driven your economy right into a ditch so the bottom line charles the country is really watching this
Time ago. The president and i welcome word that the Senate Finance committee will include the repeal of the individual mandate of obamacare in the Senate Tax Cut bill as it moves forward in that chamber. The truth is by eliminating the Obamacare Mandate tax, we will pass and enact real tax relief for working families all across america and we will end, we will end the era that began seven long years ago, where the federal government has the taxing power to order every american to buy insurance, whether they want it or need it or not. Charles now, to my panel, gail trotter, senior fellow, christopher bedford, the Daily Caller News Foundation and cheryl westwood, washington examiner. Let me start with you. You know, ive been talking about this, since last week and in fact representative lewis gom er brought it up to me and everyone kind of blew him off, but after the cvo scores said theres a honeypot of 338 billion, but im shocked that the senate is bringing, it embraced it so quickly. Y
high quality feeds, a recipe for obesity. and that is exactly what people with low incomes are faced with. they have their two dollars to buy things that are cheap, things that are very affordable. we subsidize corn, wheat, sauce, all the commodity crops that go into making the highly processed, highly sugared foods. tom, you mentioned subsidies, that was a huge part of this farm bill, do you think we ll see a farm bill that doesn t have the subsidies, given the fact that there is bipartisan support for the subsidies? you know, i m hopes that a new farm bill comes together and we can pass something that actually makes sense. and i really believe, if you look at lewis gomer, and stockman and conaway, all from texas, there are four million people who receive snap benefits in texas. and i hope that those four million realize that they re
it was just really devastating. but ironically, it didn t pass because there were those on the right that didn t think it went far enough. and so it didn t pass for some of the wrong reasons, but it was a devastating farm bill. and really we need to take a look at this and create a new farm bill and one that supports hungry americans, consumers, family farms. and the environment. does the polarization in and around the topic of food stamps, it is quite shocking. on one hand, the democrats, progressives think what was going to be done was quite unacceptable. but there is another end of the spectrum that think the cuts were not drastic enough. i want to play a sound bite from lewis gomer, and let s see what he thinks about hunger, obesity, and food in america. we don t want anyone to go hungry.
lewis gomer, and let s see what he thinks about hunger, obesity, and food in america. we don t want anyone to go hungry. and from the amount of obesity in this country, my peop by pe were told that don t have enough to eat, it does seem like we can have a debate about this issue. tom, it is like one of these instances, where do you begin? everything you re saying is wrong. this is an idea that is held in conservative circles that people are sort of lazy and living off government largesse, when in reality getting qualified for food stamps is in and of itself a trial. right, you know, nutrition is expensive, calories are cheap. and if you look at stockman, and donny ferguson, the agreements he bought on his food stamp challenge, pasta, tomato sauce, soda, sweetened fruit juices, no