SPOTLIGHT: FARM BILL … It has expired. Ag Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson spent an entire year traveling across the U.S., promising the Committee would pass the bill on time. Now, we are in our second year of the expired Farm Bill — an expired bill is like allowing our ag-related businesses to exist on a wing and a prayer. It risks the farm economy and risks kids going hungry since that’s what the argument is about. The so-called conservatives want to cut 20% of the feeding budget out of the bill. By standing for this kind of deep cut, what these “conservatives” are really saying is that they want kids to be hungry.
SPOTLIGHT: The House Oversight Committee Wasted Thousands of Hours on Hearings That Led Nowhere. On Oct. 4, the House Oversight Committee released a report bragging about the past 22 months of failure. By their own count, the Committee conducted:
- 135 hearings
- 600+ investigative letters
- 51 subpoenas
- 112 interviews with government witnesses
…all for nothing.
BUT WAIT — there is more. The Republican Majority stood against Senator Lankford’s (R-OK) bill to solve the immigration problem. This was a FLIP … a full CARTWHEEL! …of their earlier position that the immigration challenges at our southern border must be repaired. Then along came candidate Trump, who said, whoa! Stop trying to fix the bill. Why? … because he wanted to run on the problem. No “fix!” Just campaign “BS.”
“Speaker Mike Johnson, a Trump–aligned “architect of election denial” with Christian nationalist ties. Johnson is a member of the Republican Study Committee, which proposed a budget enacting key parts of the Project 2025 playbook related to the economy and health care. The RSC budget sought to destroy abortion access, put IVF at risk, repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, ban Medicare from negotiating prescription drugs, and raise drug prices – all key parts of the Trump Project 2025 agenda.”
Lastly, why no FARM BILL? It turns out the Project 2025 wants to eliminate it, too.