A Trump Cabinet secretary's inability to say from which country the U.S. will import beef is spurring online outrage. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins was asked which countries have been in talks with the U.S. about stepping up beef imports. The question came amid Trump's plan to allow up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef to enter the U.S. without higher tariffs, which has been met with backlash within the GOP. Rollins told reporters, "I am not privy to talk about" where the U.S. will be getting its beef, which stirred disbelief and anger about the secrecy.
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The deep-red state of Alabama is staring down the barrel of having to repay millions of dollars back to the federal government as a result of President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. Now, Alabama.com reports Sen. Tommy Tuberville " who approved the bill " is frantically trying to do damage control. "Sen. Tommy Tuberville is working with the state to reduce the error rate' in the local SNAP program, a metric that could lead to the state picking up a massive bill for the project in the near future," reports AL.com. "Tuberville's office made the statement Tuesday after Alabama food banks urged him and Sen. Katie Britt to support a two-year buffer before the state must begin making cost-sharing payments for its SNAP program."
A man killed eight of his relatives, including four children, as they gathered for Sunday dinner at a home in Billings, Montana, just weeks after his parents forced him to move out, a family member told The Associated Press. Brad Ireland, whose former wife and two children were among the dead, identified the shooter as 44-year-old Alan Smith. Smith's parents, who were also killed, had asked him to move out, but he returned on Sunday and opened fire, Ireland said. The victims represented four generations of the blended family, ranging from a great-grandmother in her 90s who used a wheelchair to a 7-year-old girl, according to Jennifer Mercer, a neighbor and family friend who set up an online fundraiser to help cover funeral costs and other expenses, and was authorized to release these details.
A Connecticut Republican election official is stepping down after using the N-word during a workplace argument with her Democratic counterpart, though a bureaucratic quirk means the town is legally required to keep paying her salary for weeks to come. Mary Smith, East Lyme's Republican registrar of voters, allegedly shouted that Democratic registrar Wendi Sims "treats me like I'm a (N-word)" during a dispute over the cleanliness of their shared office space, The Daily Beast reported.
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MAHA is going swimmingly.
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That figures.