“A coalition of Republicans in rural states and districts, including House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn Thompson, of Pennsylvania, introduced legislation this week to save the Food for Peace program by transferring it to the Department of Agriculture.

For 70 years, Kansas and American farmers have played an active role in sending their commodities to feed malnourished and starving populations around the world. This free gift from the American people is more than food. It’s diplomacy and feeds the most vulnerable communities…

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a major recipient of that money, which has helped make it the state’s largest employer…

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the cap on indirect costs under NIH grants was “poorly conceived” and would impose “arbitrary cuts in funding for vital research at our Maine institutions.”..

Trump’s tariffs have also ruffled feathers among some of his otherwise solid allies on Capitol Hill. That includes Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa — the Senate president pro tempore and chair of the Judiciary Committee — who protested when Trump threatened to levy tariffs on imports from Canada.

McConnell warned that slapping tariffs could have negative consequences for “our state’s 75,000 family farms that sell their crops around the globe, or the hardworking Kentuckians who craft 95% of the world’s bourbon, or our auto industry.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pain-hits-home-republicans-balk-022517250.html

But..but…it’s only avocados….and…and…’cheap stuff ‘ from. China…and…and…

The red states mooching from blue states taxpayers whining….😭🐖

    9 of the top 10 states that send more money to the Treasury Department than they receive voted for Democrats in the last three presidential elections.

Republicans balk at Trump's spending cuts and tariffs: ..Among the top 20 states that take more money from the federal government than they sent in tax payments, 13 are solidly red states that voted for Trump in the last three elections…
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by BikkaZz

6 comments

  1. These red states need to start pulling their own weight! No more handouts; bootstraps!

  2. Thirteen solid red states, how many are just red states in general, 19/20?

  3. Let me know when these Republicans quite their pitching, get off their lazy assessment and do something about it. Until then, they can STFU!

  4. We have every reason not to be surprised with such ignorant scum in the WH. Lets see if any those repub cowards…grow some balls.

  5. This is where, as they say, the rubber hits the road. It’s all fun and games until you realize, oh shit, these people are trying to take life-saving and critical care away from the people I represent back home. That’s probably not gonna work out so great.

  6. At least the red state Leopards won’t starve, what with all those faces they’ll have to eat

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