Tag: Department of Agriculture

Super Bowl Guac Is Super Destructive. Some People Want to Fix That.

Because the certification is based on satellite data, it has a level of accountability and transparency that may be missing from similar programs, which too often rely on self-reported data or understaffed inspection teams. In less than a year, more than 40 packinghouses across five Mexican states have signed on to the certification program. The […]

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Trump Agriculture Sec. Has Demented Plan to Keep Food Costs Down

“Instead, he wants to pit us against each other so that we don’t pay attention to the fact that his net worth has more than doubled while families lose their health care and access to essential services,” Johnson continued.  Trump’s purposefully unspecific proclamation is yet another example of American politicians whitewashing, sanitizing, or outright denigrating […]

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Trump Sec. Has Brilliant Plan to Lower Food Costs: Just Spend Less

“Instead, he wants to pit us against each other so that we don’t pay attention to the fact that his net worth has more than doubled while families lose their health care and access to essential services,” Johnson continued.  Trump’s purposefully unspecific proclamation is yet another example of American politicians whitewashing, sanitizing, or outright denigrating […]

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Trump Wants You to Eat “Real Food”—But You Still Can’t Afford It

“What’s allowed him to escape, you know, Houdini-like, is the Roberts court and the fact that he’s been able to manipulate the levers of power to keep himself going,” Raskin said. “I mean, if he put, you know, a fraction of that energy into trying to actually do something for the American people, we might […]

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Trump Team Unveils New Dietary Rules—But No Plan to Lower Food Costs

“What’s allowed him to escape, you know, Houdini-like, is the Roberts court and the fact that he’s been able to manipulate the levers of power to keep himself going,” Raskin said. “I mean, if he put, you know, a fraction of that energy into trying to actually do something for the American people, we might […]

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Trump Asks Random Farmer Which Countries to Tariff Next

“While I was focused on delivering real results, judges in my state took advantage of a flawed blue slip tradition and became weapons for the politicized left…. They joined New Jersey senators, who care more about fighting President Trump than the well being of residents which they serve,” Habba wrote in her resignation letter, posted […]

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Very Stable Genius Trump Says Turning on a Lawn Mower Is Hard

“While I was focused on delivering real results, judges in my state took advantage of a flawed blue slip tradition and became weapons for the politicized left…. They joined New Jersey senators, who care more about fighting President Trump than the well being of residents which they serve,” Habba wrote in her resignation letter, posted […]

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Trump’s USDA Fires Worker for Talking About Importance of Food Stamps

“My sister said, ‘How is she going to get deported if she’s a Native American?’ and ‘We have proof,’” Jacobo’s sister Maria Nunez told the Arizona Mirror. “They said, ‘Well, we don’t know because we’re not immigration and we can’t answer those questions. We’re just holding her for them. So, when they pick her up […]

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Trump’s Agriculture Department Fires Employee for Talking About SNAP

“My sister said, ‘How is she going to get deported if she’s a Native American?’ and ‘We have proof,’” Jacobo’s sister Maria Nunez told the Arizona Mirror. “They said, ‘Well, we don’t know because we’re not immigration and we can’t answer those questions. We’re just holding her for them. So, when they pick her up […]

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Trump Team Uses DoorDash Data to Claim They Beat Inflation

The Bulwark asked the Trump-owned chatbot a series of questions about the impacts of his agenda, ranging from tariffs to the insane claim that he has “solved” eight wars over the last 11 months. Here’s how the experiment went (with answers edited down for length): Q: “Do Trump’s Tariffs cost the American people money?” Truth […]

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Trump Team Uses DoorDash Data as Economic Indicator

The Bulwark asked the Trump-owned chatbot a series of questions about the impacts of Trump’s agenda, ranging from tariffs to the insane claim that he has “solved” eight wars over the last 11 months. Here’s how the experiment went (with answers edited down for length): Q: Do Trump’s Tariffs cost the American people money? Truth […]

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Judge Cites Trump’s Own Truth Social Post in Order to Fully Fund SNAP

The CBP chief had originally claimed that he deployed tear gas canisters after he was hit in the head by a rock, but in his hours-long deposition, Bovino “admitted that he lied about whether a rock hit him before he deployed tear gas in Little Village,” Ellis said, according to Jon Seidal of the Chicago […]

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Mike Johnson Panics After Trump Official Calls Out GOP on Shutdown

“Yes, my wife did not grow up Christian, I think it’s fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family, but not a particularly religious family in either direction,” Vance replied, before stating that the two were both “agnostic or an atheist” when they met. “Everybody has to come to their own arrangement […]

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Cameraman Captures Scott Bessent’s Texts, Exposing White House Panic

Monday’s threat is just the latest in a long line of whopping trade penalties imposed by the White House. Last week, the president unveiled a 100 percent tariff on branded drugs, a 25 percent tariff on heavy trucks, a 50 percent tariff on kitchen cabinets, and a 30 percent tariff on upholstered furniture. In the […]

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Camerawoman Captures Scott Bessent’s Texts, Exposing White House Panic

Monday’s threat is just the latest in a long line of whopping trade penalties imposed by the White House. Last week, the president unveiled a 100 percent tariff on branded drugs, a 25 percent tariff on heavy trucks, a 50 percent tariff on kitchen cabinets, and a 30 percent tariff on upholstered furniture. In the […]

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Trump Ends Survey on How Many Americans Are Hungry as Economy Plummets

World Liberty is notably at the center of a scandal, as The New York Times revealed last week. In May, the firm secured a $2 billion investment from an Emirati royal who just  happens to control a company that—per a deal with the United Arab Emirates that was announced two weeks later, and which Witkoff […]

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Fighting Wildfires Is Hellish Work. It’s Even Worse Under Trump.

The administration’s claims about being well-equipped to fight fires are  selective, at best. Of the estimated 4,000 U.S. Forest Service employees believed to have taken the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s deferred resignation offer earlier this year, about 1,600 were believed to hold red cards—“a drivers license to fight fires,” according to Warner Vanderheuel, a […]

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Trump Agriculture Chief Pushes Delusional Plan for Medicaid Recipients

Stocks tumbled on Monday as Donald Trump unveiled new tariff rates for a number of countries, taking a few steps closer, once again, to the brink of a global trade war. Trump in early April paused a number of hefty planned tariffs from going into effect for 90 days, promising to secure 90 trade deals […]

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Trump Agriculture Chief Pushes Outrageous Plan for Medicaid Recipients

Stocks tumbled on Monday as Donald Trump unveiled new tariff rates for a number of countries, taking a few steps closer, once again, to the brink of a global trade war. Trump in early April paused a number of hefty planned tariffs from going into effect for 90 days, promising to secure 90 trade deals […]

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Even Fox Is Calling Out How Bad Trump’s Budget Bill Is

The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The White House communications office released an eye roll–inducing supercut video Thursday about Trump’s trip to the NATO summit, declaring “Daddy’s Home,” using Usher’s song “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home).” 🎶 […]

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Trump’s Budget Bill Is So Bad, Even Fox Is Calling It Out

The White House is embracing Donald Trump’s “Daddy” nickname in a pretty intense way for a guy whose name was in the Jeffrey Epstein files. The White House communications office released an eye roll–inducing supercut video Thursday about Trump’s trip to the NATO summit, declaring “Daddy’s Home,” using Usher’s song “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home).” 🎶 […]

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Trump Officials Blocked Key Portion of Report Exposing Rising Deficit

The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez, and USNS Medgar Evars. All of the eponymous figures are prominent people of color, women, and/or civil rights leaders from American […]

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Trump Officials Blocked Key Portion of Report Exposing Growing Deficit

The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez, and USNS Medgar Evars. All of the eponymous figures are prominent people of color, women, and/or civil rights leaders from American […]

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Trump Officially Begins Meddling in Reports He Doesn’t Like

The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez, and USNS Medgar Evars. All of the eponymous figures are prominent people of color, women, and/or civil rights leaders from American […]

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Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More

But Erin Foster West, policy director at the National Young Farmers Coalition, said that programs intended to help commodity farmers have less of an impact for smaller-scale producers. Meanwhile, the USDA has eliminated the Local Food Purchase Assistance program, which connected small farmers to community food pantries and anti-hunger organizations, as well as the Local […]

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