Second in south carolina. According to some of the recent polls, second here in iowa, but we just need to have a strong showing tonight. I know you were happy with the top line des moines Register Polling Number on friday that had her just ahead of desantis by about 4 points. When you dug into it, you have an Enthusiasm Issue among Iowa Caucus goers, they are not that enthusiastic about Nikki Haley. 9 are extremely enthusiastic. She falls last on favorability, between desantis, trump and ramaswamy. How do you change minds . You worked in the trump administration, the ag department, so you were supportive of a lot of those policies. Now youre on the haley train. How do you convince your fellow iowans to get there too . I have respect for all the candidates in this race. Im not supporting Nikki Haley because of anybody thats in the race or not in the race. Im supporting her because of the vision and positive message
account with tariff revenues and charges to china that he can then write a check from. it just doesn t work like that. the program usda, the ag department wants to use is a program meant for economic disaster, essentially confirming the president s trade war is an economic disaster for american farmers. farmers, by the way, will not even remotely made whole by this. the bailout won t even coffer enough of what they lost because of a trade war. and the national corn grower s association says the last bailout will amount to about a penny a bushel for corn. and farmers don t want bailouts. they want access to global markets. and they aren t the only one paying the price of the president s tariffs. the new york fed reports, the latest increase on tariffs is costing the average american $831 a year. the president of the united states is picking the winners and losers. he s essentially affecting a transfer of wealth from american consumers, that s who pays tariffs ultimately, to farmers who
democrats take over the house. it s hard to see how they get to an agreement with what s being laid down on the take u. good point. griff, thank you very much. if there is no deal by the end of the week, the funding would run out not only for the department of security, it would run out for the ag department and nasa congress department and a number of other smaller agencies, about 600,000 federal workers in all if they can t come to a deal and we heard from griff the democrats want to make it very clear to president trump if this happens, if there is a shut down, it s on you. brian: really has no power for now, nancy pelosi is minority. she is outnumbered in the house. comes down to senator schumer. is he going to deliver the house to get the 1. excuse me, somewhere between 5 and 1.3? or else the president i don t believe is going to budge. my sense is i am wondering if schumer and nancy pelosi. they know how to make a deal
trade war, how it ends. last question, brian. and i know you don t have the details yet, but the ag department officials say people can start lining up to get the money in september, weeks before voters go to the polls. do you think apartmefarmte farmy of whom voted for donald trump, will think twice when it comes to? what s the old saying, when it comes to the economy to the point of they will think about it as they go to the voting booth. maybe. i am not sure of that. my position in farm bureau, i have been getting a lot of phone calls and texts recently in the
it is? now, that was fox news just yesterday reporting on the use of food stamps formally known in the federal government as supplemental nutrition assistance. fox news source that $70 million fraud claim to the federal government specifically to the agricultural department. but they ve not put out any new information about fraud. we called them today to ask about that figure. they say they don t know where fox got it. fact checkers who review these claims find there s zero evidence that fraud is at an all-time high. it s declined in recent years. the agricultural department does try to track it generally. in 2013, not exactly news, theyed is the program had a fraud or trafficking rate of 1.3%. it s not exactly clear why this topic is arising now. we know it s not a response to actual news from the ag department. but breitbart news, which used to be run by trump white house senior adviser steve bannon, just published its own article saying that food stamp use has risen during president