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RFK Jr. and His Allies Target Trump’s Beloved Soda
Within the Trump administration, the push to strip soda from state food-aid programs is getting personal
RFK Jr. and His Allies Target Trump’s Beloved Soda
Arkansas may be the first state to restrict Trump’s beloved beverage from food aid.
www.wsj.com
“…Liberal-leaning states including New York and Minnesota have tried in the past to strip soda from state food-aid programs, saying it would boost their nutritional impact. But the U.S. Agriculture Department, which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has rejected the requests for more than 20 years, saying it would be too complicated to implement. This year, deep-red Arkansas may be the first to get a different answer.
The state is preparing to ask the USDA if it can restrict some less-healthy items, including potentially soda, candy and desserts, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in an interview Friday.
“Nobody is anti-Diet Coke. Nobody is anti-soft drink. I like a soft drink, too. It’s whether or not the government should be paying for it,” said Sanders, who was Trump’s press secretary in his first term.
…Currently SNAP recipients can purchase most food with the benefits, but not items such as pet food or alcohol. Sanders said the state is still fine-tuning the language of its waiver request.
Trump’s new agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, has indicated she is inclined to grant such waivers. She sent governors a letter on her first full day in office, urging them to propose pilot programs testing changes to food aid. …”
StrangePackage
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They just want to punish poor people. It's nothing to do with health.
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I won't. I'll get the lowlights later.
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Given that the Republican party has a long history of shitting on the poor, and an equally long history of hostility towards anything akin to government regulations designed to benefit the health of the populace (including this very notion regulating sugary drinks), It's very hard to see this as anything other than trying to make life more miserable for poor people.
CFordUNC
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Welcome to the big leagues of politics, baby! Enjoy it. The Biden administration had no way to win for the last four years either according to you guys. Ain’t no fun when the rabbit has the gun, is it?
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Oh no!
ram, you don’t have to outsource your critical thinking and morality to a fascist cadre comprised of a demented narcissistic sociopath, a christonationalist sociopath, and a drug addled white supremacist.
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So, what's going to be the theater event(s) by the Dems tomorrow tonight?:
1. Boycott;
2. Walk out;
3. All the women wear suffragette white;
4. Tear up copy of the speech;
5. Have the fired federal worker guests disrupt the proceedings.
6. Code Pink guests disruption.
7. Ukrainian flags
8. All the men wear Zelensky Star Trek "uniforms"
9. Pull a fire alarm.
10. Some combo of the above.
On MSNBC, the left wing activists are clamoring for the elected Dems to "do something" so I expect some fireworks tomorrow evening.
1. Boycott;
2. Walk out;
3. All the women wear suffragette white;
4. Tear up copy of the speech;
5. Have the fired federal worker guests disrupt the proceedings.
6. Code Pink guests disruption.
7. Ukrainian flags
8. All the men wear Zelensky Star Trek "uniforms"
9. Pull a fire alarm.
10. Some combo of the above.
On MSNBC, the left wing activists are clamoring for the elected Dems to "do something" so I expect some fireworks tomorrow evening.
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Shenanigans
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This is your brain on right wing bullshit.
CFordUNC
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Yeeesh. Are you ok?
MOUNTAINH33L
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Right? I mean what they should be doing is just shutting the fuck up and just accept all the bullshit that President Musk and Assistant Co-President Trump are doing. Hopefully they'll follow the example from some of the adults in the room like MTG or Boebert.
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“… The U.S. Forest Service, which stewards 193 million acres of public lands from Alaska to Florida, was in trouble even before Trump took office. Chronically understaffed, the service was already under a Biden-era hiring freeze, all the while on the front lines of fighting and recovering from back-to-back climate disasters across the country.
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The federal agency does more than ensure that Americans have a place to hunt, hike, fish, or paddle. In the South, forest workers played a key role in helping western North Carolina and other communities recover from impacts of Hurricane Helene. In the West, they’re taking on fire risk mitigation and fighting wildfires. They’re also involved in fisheries management in places like Alaska. Across the country, agency biologists and foresters are busy working to strengthen the over 150 national forests and 20 grasslands it monitors in the face of changing climate.
Increasingly, the service is getting spread thin.
The agency has experienced a steady decrease in staffing over the last decade and the workers that remain are often overworked and underpaid, according to Reynolds.
“That means you’re going to see those campgrounds close, the trails go unmaintained, roads closed, you’re going to feel the effects of wildfire and hurricane recovery work that’s just going to remain undone,” said Reynolds. “Communities are going to struggle.” …”