getting taxpayer bailouts. we have too much crime on our streets, too many drugs flooding our cities and too few police and border patrol. [ cheers and applause ] from joe biden on down, our leaders put too much trust in big government and too little trust in the american people. [ cheers and applause ] they have us spiraling toward socialist with a new trillion dollar spending bill ever few months and a national debt over $30 trillion. this is not the america that called to my parents. and make no mistake, this is not the america i will leave to my children. [ cheers and applause ]
In the past few weeks, the government has laid out contrasting proposals for reviving national carrier Kenya Airways (KQ), adding to the uncertainty surrounding the airline which continues to.
A new bill in Congress, the Butch Lewis Act, would require taxpayers to stand behind private union pension plans’ broken promises. The proposal would apply to troubled union, or multiemployer, pension plans which have collectively promised about $600 billion more in benefits than they can afford to pay.
Once hailed as a bedrock of retirement security, many defined benefit pensions are now on the brink of failure. Some troubled multiemployer (union) pension plans carry debts so large that the government entity tasked with insuring them the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) will also soon be insolvent. If troubled pension plans do not take action to increase contributions and curb unsustainable benefits, most pensioners will receive significantly less than their companies promised them.
crisis in farm country. falling crop prices, a string of natural disasters and the u.s./china trade war. data from the china federation shows form bankruptcies have soared 24% since september 2018. farmers, a key demographic for trump in the 2020 election. he s called them patriots for making sacrifices while he negotiates with beijing. he s handed out $28 billion in taxpayer bailouts to those farmers. one of those farmers is taking on one of trump s biggest backers. christopher gibbs is weighing an independent run to unseat jim jordan. jim jordan has been attached to the house impeachment inquiry. he said his interest in running for office is more than trump s agricultural policies and defeating jordan. this is bigger than that. listen, populism has crept into both of the parties. gibbs voted for trump in 2016. but he became an outspoken critic of the trade policies and left the republican party.