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Senate Republican Budget Bill Would Kill Clean Energy Jobs in Rural America

New Map Shows Public Land For Sale Under Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill

"Anything Else is Bullshit."

The Senate and House Budget Bills Both Boost Government Payments to Some Farmers While Cutting SNAP

Senate Republicans Continue Their Negotiations to Advance "Big Beautiful Bill" This Week.

House of Representatives Votes to Screw Rural People, Advance Tax Cuts for the Billionaires.

With Hundreds of Billions of Funds on the Line for Rural America, Republicans Push Megabill Through Budget Committee.

Republican House Budget Committee Does Not Yet Approve Budget Bill. Rural America Would See Deep Cuts.

Republican Budget Reconciliation Package Cuts Clean Energy While Fast-Tracking Fossil Fuels, Mining, and Pipelines.

Republicans in House Agriculture Committee Slash SNAP Food Assistance by $290 Billion.

Trump's Proposed Budget Floats MAHA Food Box Program to Replace Critical Emergency Food Assistance.

Trump Budget Proposal Once Again Brings Culture War Casualties to Rural America.

The Numbers Behind the Farm Vote. And Why Those Numbers Matter.

Can Democrats Stop the GOP From Taking a Chainsaw to the Farm Bill?

The Trump EPA is Cutting Back Its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program

Breaking Update--House Passes Budget in Narrow 216-214 vote. Big Spending Cuts and Big Tax Cuts for the Rich are Coming.

Tariff Pause. No Movement on Federal Budget. USDA in the DOGE Crosshairs. And more--Some Rural News Updates.

Trump Orders More Coal Production and Use. That Means More Pollution, Wrecked Public Lands, Health Problems, and a Threat to Clean Energy

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins Issues Order to Cut Down Our Public Forests

Senate Passes Budget, Leaving House Republicans the Only Remaining Roadblock to Deep Spending and Tax Cuts

Trump's Trade War Combined with Budget Cuts and Fired Federal Workers is a Big Problem for Rural America

Trump "Liberates" the U.S. from Cheap Imports

U.S. Trade Policy Under Trump is a Mess. Here's Some Ideas to Fix It.

Agriculture as Collateral Damage in Trump's Trade War

Agriculture as a Pawn in Trump's Trade War

Booker Introduces Bill to Force USDA to Honor Contracts Being Held Up By Trump

USDA Is Under Fire For Freezing Rural Clean Energy Funding. It's Just a Bait and Switch.

Republican Leaders MIA in Rural America

House Democrats Skewer GOP For Proposing $230 Billion in SNAP Cuts.

Trump Adds Canada and Mexico to Tariff List.

If You Care About Record Egg Prices, You Should Care About Corporate Consolidation.

House Republicans Just Voted to Slash Health Care and Food Assistance to Cut Taxes for the Rich.

Senate Passes Their Version of This Year's Budget 52-48.

Big Ag Republicans Continue to Spout Big BS About the Estate Tax.

Energy Dominance: The New Motto for Trump's Interior Department + Other Agencies.

Trump, House of Representatives Bringing Big Changes to U.S. Forest Service.

Newly Confirmed Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins Joins Trump and Musk in Dismantling Federal Government.

6 Threads--The Trump Administration's Impact on Rural America So Far.

House Republican Budget Proposal: Cut Taxes for the Rich, Punish the Poor.

The Inflation Reduction Act is Driving a Clean Energy Boom in Rural, GOP Districts.

Farmers, Rural Clean Energy Projects Still Being Locked Out of Federal Funding.

The Trump-Musk War on Federal Workers Could Hit Rural America hard.

Empowering Rural America Program Delivers Billions to Support Clean Energy.

Just Before Leaving Office, President Biden Creates Two New National Monuments Through the Antiquities Act.

DC Transition. Debt Ceiling. Domestic Spending. Democrats in the Minority.