Hakeem Jeffries Does A Good Job Blasting Trump On CNBC

Democratic house leader Hakeem Jeffries blasted Trump for refusing to meet with Democrats at all during the government shutdown. Jeffries also listed all the things Trump has time to do while refusing to negotiate with the opposition party, The Trump-supporting CNBC host Joe Kernen was flustered. Joe blamed Democrats and said it was a bad look for them to shut down the government, but Jeffries turned the tables, and laid out what Trump has been actually doing since the shutdown occurred, which includes refusing to meet with Democrats. JEFFRIES: Donald Trump and Republicans promised that costs were going to go down on day one, but costs aren’t going down. Inflation is moving in the wrong direction. The Trump tariffs are causing thousands of dollars of additional expense for everyday Americans. Grocery costs have gone up, housing costs are going up, electricity bills are through the roof and now people are faced, tens of millions of people are facing dramatically increased health care premiums. In some instances, a thousand or two thousand dollars more per month. These are working-class people. This is unaffordable — KERNEN: What changed since then to where we are now where you can use a government shutdown to extract concessions from Republicans? read more.

Trump Solution For Rising Beef Prices: Make Americans Eat More Beef

Trump’s Agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, told FOX Business that the administration plans to lower the price of beef by making Americans eat more beef. US farmers have been increasingly critical of the Trump administration over many issues, including the rising costs of beef due to his tariffs. They are furious with their plans to import beef from Argentina. Brooke Rollins’ solution is to tell Americans to eat more beef to lower prices. ROLLINS: We’re implementing new programs to allow younger ranchers to get into the business with cheaper loans, better protection, et cetera. We are with Newton-Maha, with Bobby Kennedy, and putting protein, specifically beef, back at the center of the American diet from the government’s perspective. And when you think about what we spend every day on nutrition programs from the USDA, it’s 400 million a day, pivoting some of that to specifically locally grown and produced and healthy, the best beef in the world. There was a time when Michelle Obama tried to make school lunches healthier for children, and Republicans had a meltdown over it. Telling your voters to ‘stuff their faces with more hamburgers if they want lower prices’ is not a winning message.