Joe Exotic's husband was released from prison and immediately deported to Mexico.
Tariffs have started hitting consumers and small businesses hard. HERE are the receipts. read more
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Egg prices reached another record high last month. It now costs American shoppers an average of $6.23 for a dozen eggs " nearly a five-fold increase since 2020. Avian flu only caused a 4% drop in production, yet the industry has been price gouging while taking over $1 billion in subsidies paid them due to avian flu.
Donald Trump has the lowest 100-day job approval rating of any president in the past 80 years. 2nd lowest at 100 days? Donald Trump's first 100 days in 2017. read more
As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes, rural areas in particular depend on Medicaid spending. Nearly half of all children in rural areas, 47 percent, receive health insurance through Medicaid. Rural hospitals, which have struggled to stay afloat in the face of broad and overlapping challenges, also rely on Medicaid to stay open and provide needed services to isolated areas.
House Republicans also want to slash the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to reduce so-called waste, fraud and abuse. (In truth, SNAP is among the most efficient federal assistance programs in operation.) Again, these cuts " which will effectively pay for tax benefits for people with higher incomes " will most likely hit children and other vulnerable populations hardest. And as with the proposed Medicaid cuts, this will hit hard for rural areas, where roughly one in seven households receives SNAP benefits.
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