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Senate Republican Budget Bill Would Kill Clean Energy Jobs in Rural America
The Senate GOP budget reconciliation draft would slash wind and solar incentives to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Thousands of clean energy jobs in…
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Bryce Oates
New Map Shows Public Land For Sale Under Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill
The Senate Republican budget reconciliation draft proposes selling off millions of acres of federal public lands in the West to pay for tax cuts for…
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Bryce Oates
"Anything Else is Bullshit."
Farmworker groups say that Trump's order to suspend immigration raids, arrests, and disappearances is bullshit. This week, federal migration cops…
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The Senate and House Budget Bills Both Boost Government Payments to Some Farmers While Cutting SNAP
Republicans like to pit government farm programs against SNAP nutrition benefits. The Cocklebur created these data tables to document state-level…
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Senate Republicans Continue Their Negotiations to Advance "Big Beautiful Bill" This Week.
The budget bill will likely see significant action in the Senate this week. The bill seeks to cut taxes for the rich paid for by slashing hundreds of…
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May 2025

House of Representatives Votes to Screw Rural People, Advance Tax Cuts for the Billionaires.
I am done. I hate this. Rural people would lose food and health care support. The rich get richer. Boo.
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With Hundreds of Billions of Funds on the Line for Rural America, Republicans Push Megabill Through Budget Committee.
The Republican Budget Committee advanced their budget reconciliation bill late Sunday night through promises and legislative maneuvers. This week could…
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Republican House Budget Committee Does Not Yet Approve Budget Bill. Rural America Would See Deep Cuts.
From cuts to Medicaid to SNAP nutrition benefits to clean energy, the Republican budget bill would have deep, deep cuts on programs, services, and…
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Republican Budget Reconciliation Package Cuts Clean Energy While Fast-Tracking Fossil Fuels, Mining, and Pipelines.
The proposed GOP budget plan slashes clean energy funding and tax credits, increases incentives for dirty energy projects, and provides new ways for…
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Republicans in House Agriculture Committee Slash SNAP Food Assistance by $290 Billion.
Republicans advance their war on the poor by cutting nutrition benefits to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and the ultra-wealthy. The GOP Agriculture…
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Trump's Proposed Budget Floats MAHA Food Box Program to Replace Critical Emergency Food Assistance.
During Trump's first term, his Administration moved billions of federal nutrition assistance dollars to a food box program. It was a disaster--the very…
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Trump Budget Proposal Once Again Brings Culture War Casualties to Rural America.
In his proposed budget starting October 1, Trump would slash billions in funding and services that rural people and rural communities depend on.
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