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gab13by13

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Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:13 AM 19 hrs ago

Congressional Magats Want Money For Farmers But Not For Obamacare & Medicaid [View all]

Farmers, especially soybean farmers, have no markets for their crops, China is buying from other countries because of Krasnov's tariffs. Also, because of the tariffs it is costing farmers more money to grow the crops, they are more expensive.

In Krasnov's 1st term he spent 28 billion dollars bailing out farmers and he has stated he wants to do it again, one problem, the money comes from the Commodity Credit Corporation Fund, and that fund only has 4 billion dollars in it. Congressional Magats to the rescue, they are stating that they want to spend 35 to 50 billion dollars to bail out farmers and that will require legislation. (at least it should)

By the way, Krasnov just gave away billions of dollars to Argentina to prop up its economy to get an autocrat elected president.

A few billion here a few billion there for rich people is no problem for Magats but helping millions of Americans with healthcare is a bridge too far, too expensive for the deficit. Democrats are asking for 622 billion dollars for Obamacare and Medicaid and Magats say, Sorry Charlie.

Congressional Magats want to meet to "negotiate" for 50 billion dollars for farmers, but don't want to meet to negotiate for healthcare for millions of Americans.

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