California voted 63 percent to ban this. Massachusetts voted 78 percent. The industry sued and lost at the Supreme Court.
So they slipped a provision into the House farm bill to void both votes and block every future state from trying. One lobbying campaign undoing two supermajority referendums.
The largest beneficiary is Smithfield - owned by a Chinese company. Congress is being asked to override American voters to protect a Chinese corporation's factory farming practices.
84 percent of Americans called this unacceptable in polling. The Senate gets to decide if that number means anything.
A recent paper showed how eliminating property tax benefits seniors at the expense of young families.
The authors found "low property taxes lead to concentrated ownership among elderly empty-nesters... while young families instead occupy crowded housing quarters." 🧵!
Call me old-fashioned, but I think it should be a bigger story that a sitting Republican member of Congress is missing, nobody knows where he is, yet he’s somehow still insider trading.
BLANCHE: "The United States...is hereby FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED from prosecuting or pursuing...examinations or similar or related reviews" against Trump "or related or affiliated individuals," including family members or related companies and trusts.