The five-year law overseeing the farm safety net, nutrition assistance, and conservation programs is on hold after Republicans’ “magic math” is exposed as a cut to food assistance.
It’s part of President Biden’s legislative agenda—the most productive in generations, yet few Americans know all the details of how it improves their lives, the economy, the climate, and more.
The bill would have guaranteed the right for Americans to obtain and use birth control without government interference. It would also protect the right of health care providers to distribute information about contraception and provide it to patients.
President Biden will talk up rural investments while former President Trump is promising a return to the tariffs and trade wars that made farmers more reliant on assistance.
Senate Democrats joined their House counterparts in calling for an industry-wide investigation into Big Oil collusion and price-fixing allegations, which they say cost US consumers at the pump while driving up corporate profits.
The Right to Contraception Act would protect access to birth control nationwide as many reproductive rights advocates worry that contraceptive access will be Republicans’ next target after they successfully helped overturn Roe v. Wade.
“I’m bad because I’m the One Percent?”
Restoration PAC, funded by Uline’s Richard Uihlein, twists the significance of forcing Big Pharma to negotiate for lower bulk pricing on Medicare prescriptions.
The Democratic incumbent will point to specific accomplishments while the Republican challenger will outline general concerns he would address.
Getting to know the contenders for this November’s US Senate election.
