BudmanTX
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in general.....most people think Christ (the man) was teach something so simply that it got out of hand....it was the idea of cause and effect...aka do unto other as they do to you
Examples of GOP Leadership
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
It’s a pretty solid rule of thumb to take everything Jesus said, turn it on its head, and you have dominionist ideology in a tidy package.
What makes Johnson especially dangerous is the silky-smooth aw-shucks clean-cut country-boy delivery of things that don’t sound near as bad as they are, until analyzed just a little bit.
Unlike the previous shitshow in orange, Manchurian Candidate 2.0 is much easier to swallow, but as deadly.
That man is chocolate-covered cyanide.
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Giuliani home, office raided in 2021 in Ukraine investigation: Court records
The warrant, first acquired by The New York Times, sought to determine whether Giuliani was illegally compensated for lobbying the Trump administration to dump Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
The document claimed Giuliani was encouraged to push out Yovanovitch in exchange for a lucrative D.C. lobbying job on behalf of Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko.
“Giuliani was interested in being engaged to do that work, and proposed a retainer with a $200,000 upfront payment,” the warrant application said. “Thus, it appears that Giuliani took steps to cause the firing of the Ambassador to prove … what he could achieve.”
It also claimed Giuliani wanted Lutsenko to launch an investigation into then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. Those interactions were later part of then-President Trump’s first impeachment investigation.
Using the warrant, federal investigators determined that Giuliani was never paid the $200,000 retainer, but highlighted that a quickly worsening financial position made it possible that he could have seriously considered the offer.
Investigators also revealed text messages with Trump aide Lev Parnas about the scheme, in which Giuliani says he had little influence over Yovanovitch’s eventual ouster. Parnas was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year in an unrelated illegal lobbying case.
Without significant evidence, prosecutors ended the investigation into Giuliani in late 2022.
The former mayor’s finances have been at the center of his recent legal troubles over attempts to overturn the 2020 election. He was handed a $148 million penalty in a Georgia defamation case last week, after baselessly accusing a pair of election workers of fraud.
Giuliani also faces a criminal trial in Georgia over his involvement in attempts to overturn 2020 election results there on behalf of Trump.
He has reportedly struggled to pay for legal representation in the cases, repeatedly asking Trump for funds. He was sued by his former attorney over unpaid legal bills in September, and the IRS placed a lien on his Florida condo in August over back taxes.
thehill.com
The warrant, first acquired by The New York Times, sought to determine whether Giuliani was illegally compensated for lobbying the Trump administration to dump Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.
The document claimed Giuliani was encouraged to push out Yovanovitch in exchange for a lucrative D.C. lobbying job on behalf of Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko.
“Giuliani was interested in being engaged to do that work, and proposed a retainer with a $200,000 upfront payment,” the warrant application said. “Thus, it appears that Giuliani took steps to cause the firing of the Ambassador to prove … what he could achieve.”
It also claimed Giuliani wanted Lutsenko to launch an investigation into then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. Those interactions were later part of then-President Trump’s first impeachment investigation.
Using the warrant, federal investigators determined that Giuliani was never paid the $200,000 retainer, but highlighted that a quickly worsening financial position made it possible that he could have seriously considered the offer.
Investigators also revealed text messages with Trump aide Lev Parnas about the scheme, in which Giuliani says he had little influence over Yovanovitch’s eventual ouster. Parnas was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year in an unrelated illegal lobbying case.
Without significant evidence, prosecutors ended the investigation into Giuliani in late 2022.
The former mayor’s finances have been at the center of his recent legal troubles over attempts to overturn the 2020 election. He was handed a $148 million penalty in a Georgia defamation case last week, after baselessly accusing a pair of election workers of fraud.
Giuliani also faces a criminal trial in Georgia over his involvement in attempts to overturn 2020 election results there on behalf of Trump.
He has reportedly struggled to pay for legal representation in the cases, repeatedly asking Trump for funds. He was sued by his former attorney over unpaid legal bills in September, and the IRS placed a lien on his Florida condo in August over back taxes.
Giuliani home, office raided in 2021 in Ukraine investigation: Court records
Rudy Giuliani’s home and office were raided in 2021 by federal authorities as part of an investigation into whether the former New York City mayor illegally lobbied on behalf of Ukraine, according …
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printer
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Throw on 1.5X speed and kick your feet up. A scary time for the US. Not that it is anything that will surprise us, just getting an actual account from inside.I'm finding this fascinating. This guy is OG!
Mike Johnson sounds a bit dangerous according to this guy.
printer
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Uh, you are a Republic, not a democracy (if a democracy maybe get rid of the EC?
Haley blasts Colorado ruling on Trump: ‘That’s not a democracy’
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley expressed her opposition Wednesday to the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to disqualify former President Trump from the state ballot, arguing the decision is “truly unthinkable.”
“The idea that judges are going to take it upon themselves to decide who can and can’t be on the ballot is truly unthinkable,” Haley said in an interview with Fox News’s Martha MacCallum. “And I think the people of Colorado should be furious.”
Colorado’s high court on Tuesday handed down a ruling stating Trump should be prevented from appearing on the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause, which states those who took oaths to support the Constitution cannot engage in a rebellion against it.
The court’s 4-3 ruling states Trump engaged in an insurrection by falsely claiming election fraud and rallying his supporters to go to the Capitol prior to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, and rules the office of the presidency falls under the insurrection clause.
Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina, emphasized she will defeat Trump “on [her] own” and doesn’t need a judge to remove him from the ballot.
“I don’t think [Trump] should be president, I think I should be president,” Haley said Wednesday. “I think our country would do a lot better if I was, but we should have this race fair and square with him on the ballot, just like everybody else.”
“And the idea that we go and say, just because these liberal justices don’t like him, they want to take him off the ballot — that’s not democracy, that’s not who we are. That’s not what we need to do.”
Haley’s remarks echo sentiments from several GOP lawmakers and candidates competing against her and Trump for the GOP presidential nomination.
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, along with several GOP congressional members, have argued the Colorado ruling is an attempt by Democrats to prevent Trump from the 2024 election.
All justices of the Colorado Supreme Court’s seven-member bench were appointed by Democratic governors, a point several GOP figures have stressed in their criticism of the ruling. Six of these justices won retention elections, and the seventh will run to do so in the next year.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another GOP White House hopeful, said voters, not the courts, should decide whether Trump should be “prevented” from reelection in 2024. Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy went as far as to say that he would “withdraw” from the Colorado ballot unless Trump is included.
thehill.com
So who thinks Haley would get on her knees in front of Trump in order to be VP?
Haley blasts Colorado ruling on Trump: ‘That’s not a democracy’
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley expressed her opposition Wednesday to the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to disqualify former President Trump from the state ballot, arguing the decision is “truly unthinkable.”
“The idea that judges are going to take it upon themselves to decide who can and can’t be on the ballot is truly unthinkable,” Haley said in an interview with Fox News’s Martha MacCallum. “And I think the people of Colorado should be furious.”
Colorado’s high court on Tuesday handed down a ruling stating Trump should be prevented from appearing on the ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause, which states those who took oaths to support the Constitution cannot engage in a rebellion against it.
The court’s 4-3 ruling states Trump engaged in an insurrection by falsely claiming election fraud and rallying his supporters to go to the Capitol prior to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, and rules the office of the presidency falls under the insurrection clause.
Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina, emphasized she will defeat Trump “on [her] own” and doesn’t need a judge to remove him from the ballot.
“I don’t think [Trump] should be president, I think I should be president,” Haley said Wednesday. “I think our country would do a lot better if I was, but we should have this race fair and square with him on the ballot, just like everybody else.”
“And the idea that we go and say, just because these liberal justices don’t like him, they want to take him off the ballot — that’s not democracy, that’s not who we are. That’s not what we need to do.”
Haley’s remarks echo sentiments from several GOP lawmakers and candidates competing against her and Trump for the GOP presidential nomination.
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, along with several GOP congressional members, have argued the Colorado ruling is an attempt by Democrats to prevent Trump from the 2024 election.
All justices of the Colorado Supreme Court’s seven-member bench were appointed by Democratic governors, a point several GOP figures have stressed in their criticism of the ruling. Six of these justices won retention elections, and the seventh will run to do so in the next year.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, another GOP White House hopeful, said voters, not the courts, should decide whether Trump should be “prevented” from reelection in 2024. Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy went as far as to say that he would “withdraw” from the Colorado ballot unless Trump is included.
Haley blasts Colorado ruling on Trump: ‘That’s not a democracy’
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley expressed her opposition Wednesday to the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to disqualify former President Trump from the state ballot, arguing the…
thehill.com
So who thinks Haley would get on her knees in front of Trump in order to be VP?
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Judge in Giuliani election worker’s lawsuit orders immediate enforcement of judgment
The judge assigned to the defamation suit against former New York City Mayor and former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani ordered immediate enforcement of judgment in the case Wednesday.
In most cases, Giuliani would have a 30-day “automatic stay for enforcement of judgment pending resolution of any appeal.” Plaintiffs in the case sought to dissolve that automatic stay, a motion Giuliani called abnormal in court filings. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled Wednesday to dissolve that 30-day grace period, calling it “both appropriate and warranted.”
On Friday, a jury ordered Giuliani to pay $148 million to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after the former New York City mayor defamed the Georgia election workers by accusing them of committing election fraud. In a joint stipulation filed Monday, the parties agreed to reduce the amount to nearly $146 million “as ‘resolution of any setoff claim'” Giuliani might have from Freeman and Moss’s May 2022 settlement with parties named as defendants in the initial complaint.
The ruling of the immediate enforcement of judgment comes due to “several considerations” pointing to the “risk that Giuliani may attempt to ‘conceal and dissipate [his] assets'” during the aforementioned 30-day period, according to Howell.
Both Freeman and Moss sued Giuliani again Monday in an attempt to “permanently bar” him from more defamatory statements about him.
“Defendant Giuliani has engaged in, and is engaging in, a continuing course of repetitive false speech and harassment — specifically, repeating over and over the same lies that Plaintiffs engaged in election fraud during their service as election workers during the 2020 presidential election,” Monday’s complaint reads.
thehill.com
The judge assigned to the defamation suit against former New York City Mayor and former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani ordered immediate enforcement of judgment in the case Wednesday.
In most cases, Giuliani would have a 30-day “automatic stay for enforcement of judgment pending resolution of any appeal.” Plaintiffs in the case sought to dissolve that automatic stay, a motion Giuliani called abnormal in court filings. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled Wednesday to dissolve that 30-day grace period, calling it “both appropriate and warranted.”
On Friday, a jury ordered Giuliani to pay $148 million to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after the former New York City mayor defamed the Georgia election workers by accusing them of committing election fraud. In a joint stipulation filed Monday, the parties agreed to reduce the amount to nearly $146 million “as ‘resolution of any setoff claim'” Giuliani might have from Freeman and Moss’s May 2022 settlement with parties named as defendants in the initial complaint.
The ruling of the immediate enforcement of judgment comes due to “several considerations” pointing to the “risk that Giuliani may attempt to ‘conceal and dissipate [his] assets'” during the aforementioned 30-day period, according to Howell.
Both Freeman and Moss sued Giuliani again Monday in an attempt to “permanently bar” him from more defamatory statements about him.
“Defendant Giuliani has engaged in, and is engaging in, a continuing course of repetitive false speech and harassment — specifically, repeating over and over the same lies that Plaintiffs engaged in election fraud during their service as election workers during the 2020 presidential election,” Monday’s complaint reads.
Judge in Giuliani election workers lawsuit orders immediate enforcement of judgment
The judge assigned to the defamation suit against former New York City Mayor and former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani ordered immediate enforcement of judgment in the case Wednesday. In most cases, …
thehill.com
Budzbuddha
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Another Grift.
Listen up yokels , trailer tami’s , cletus , jo bob and other associated knuckleheads - Give to your pseudo dictator today !
Listen up yokels , trailer tami’s , cletus , jo bob and other associated knuckleheads - Give to your pseudo dictator today !
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
printer
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"You can have any color you want as long as it is black." "Or vote for Biden."
H G Griffin
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I just posted a vid in the Trump thread and it addresses the "let the voters decide" objection.
The voters DO NOT get to decide, just like they can't chose someone under 35 or born outside the US. If you are ineligible under the constitution, you cannot hold office, full stop.
The voters DO NOT get to decide, just like they can't chose someone under 35 or born outside the US. If you are ineligible under the constitution, you cannot hold office, full stop.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Orange is the new black
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
more performance politics from the avowed dominionist.
topcat
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Moses Johnson.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Truly frightening.
Mike Johnson Compares Himself to Moses at Christian Nationalist Gala
House Speaker Mike Johnson compared himself to Moses while speaking at a Christian nationalist gala on Tuesday.
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Budzbuddha
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Is that Jim “only Republican subpoenas are worth half a deep-fried rat ham” Jordan saying that?
Swalwell hits Jordan at hearing over subpoena compliance: ‘Quite rich’
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) at a Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Thursday about “compliance with committee oversight,” pointing out that the chairman of the Jud…
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printer
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You can run, you can hide, Texas is coming for you.
Seattle Hospital sues after Texas Attorney General asks for handover of patient records
The Seattle Children’s Hospital filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court on Dec. 7 against the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG), after that agency requested documents related to gender transition policies and any such care provided to Texas children.
However, hospital claims that the OAG lacks jurisdiction to demand such records from the hospital, and that Washington’s “Shield Law” protects it from requests made by states that “restrict or criminalize reproductive and gender-affirming care.”
OutLaw: Helping or hurting trans kids? Health care fight continues after law
“The Shield Law prohibits Washington-based entities such as Seattle Children’s from ‘[c]omply[ing] with subpoena, warrant, court order, or other civil or criminal legal process for records, information, facilities, or assistance related to protected health care services that are lawful in the state of Washington,'” the lawsuit stated.
KXAN reached out to the OAG multiple times prior to publication; however, the agency never replied to our requests.
According to copies of the OAG’s requests (included in the hospital’s lawsuit), the OAG sent two demands — a civil investigative demand and a notice of demand for sworn written statement.
The first demand, which has an issue date of Nov. 17, told the hospital that the OAG was investigating “misrepresentations regarding Gender Transitioning and Reassignment Treatments and Procedures and Texas law” that allegedly violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.
That demand gave the hospital until Dec. 7 to produce documents to the OAG for the agency to identify the following:
Both demands include a notice that failure to comply could result in a misdemeanor criminal charge that would carry a $5,000 fine or jail confinement of up to a year.
While OAG extended its reach across state lines, the hospital has not, according to the hospital’s Chief Medical Operations Officer Dr. Ruth McDonald and two hospital senior directors.
McDonald, in a sworn affidavit, told the court that the hospital does not have property or accounts, nor employees who provide “gender-affirming care” (or administrative services for that care) in Texas or based in Texas.
“Likewise, SCH [Seattle Children’s Hospital] providers have not provided telemedicine services to Texas residents for ‘gender-affirming care’…or ‘Gender Transitioning or Gender Reassignment Procedures and Treatments,'” said McDonald in her affidavit. “Based on a search of records by our revenue cycle department, there is no record that SCH has provided any ‘gender-affirming care’…or ‘Gender Transitioning or Gender Reassignment Procedures and Treatments’…using public money from the State of Texas or with reimbursement from Texas’s Medicaid or Texas’s child health plan programs.”
The affidavit also claims that the hospital “has not marketed or advertised” transition-related medical care in Texas.
The two other affidavits were filed by a senior director responsible for the hospital’s email system and the senior director responsible for the hospital’s electronic health records system. Both swear that all of the servers and devices providing those services are based in Seattle.
“The Demands should also be set aside because they are not bona fide investigation into
violations of the DTPA and therefore are not proper exercise of the Attorney General’s authority,” the lawsuit states. “The Demands are an improper attempt by the Attorney General to investigate and enforce recently-enacted [Texas] SB 14 against Seattle Children’s based on healthcare services that may have been provided by or at Seattle Children’s within the State of Washington.”
JUNE: Gov. Abbott signs bill banning transgender health care for minors into law
The lawsuit cites definitions made in Senate Bill 14 that restricts the law’s scope to Texas:
“Seattle Children’s is not (and cannot be) in violation of SB 14. The Demands are, therefore, an improper and ultra vires attempt to enforce SB 14 beyond the scope of the statute and beyond the authority of the Attorney General,” the lawsuit states. “The Attorney General, through the Demands for documents and information…is improperly attempting to investigate healthcare that did not occur in Texas.”
Along a similar line, the hospital’s attorneys claim that such an investigation violates the U.S. Constitution’s dormant Commerce Clause, which prevents States from enforcing “protectionist” laws that would erode a national marketplace.
thehill.com
Seattle Hospital sues after Texas Attorney General asks for handover of patient records
The Seattle Children’s Hospital filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court on Dec. 7 against the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG), after that agency requested documents related to gender transition policies and any such care provided to Texas children.
However, hospital claims that the OAG lacks jurisdiction to demand such records from the hospital, and that Washington’s “Shield Law” protects it from requests made by states that “restrict or criminalize reproductive and gender-affirming care.”
OutLaw: Helping or hurting trans kids? Health care fight continues after law
“The Shield Law prohibits Washington-based entities such as Seattle Children’s from ‘[c]omply[ing] with subpoena, warrant, court order, or other civil or criminal legal process for records, information, facilities, or assistance related to protected health care services that are lawful in the state of Washington,'” the lawsuit stated.
KXAN reached out to the OAG multiple times prior to publication; however, the agency never replied to our requests.
According to copies of the OAG’s requests (included in the hospital’s lawsuit), the OAG sent two demands — a civil investigative demand and a notice of demand for sworn written statement.
The first demand, which has an issue date of Nov. 17, told the hospital that the OAG was investigating “misrepresentations regarding Gender Transitioning and Reassignment Treatments and Procedures and Texas law” that allegedly violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.
That demand gave the hospital until Dec. 7 to produce documents to the OAG for the agency to identify the following:
- All medications prescribed by the hospital to Texas children
- The number of Texas children treated by the hospital
- Diagnosis for every medication provided by the hospital to Texas children
- Texas laboratories that performed lab tests for the hospital prior to prescribing medications
- Protocol/guidance for treating Texas children diagnosed with gender identity disorder, gender dysphoria or endocrine disorders
- Protocol/guidance on how to “wean” a Texas child off gender transitioning care
Both demands include a notice that failure to comply could result in a misdemeanor criminal charge that would carry a $5,000 fine or jail confinement of up to a year.
While OAG extended its reach across state lines, the hospital has not, according to the hospital’s Chief Medical Operations Officer Dr. Ruth McDonald and two hospital senior directors.
McDonald, in a sworn affidavit, told the court that the hospital does not have property or accounts, nor employees who provide “gender-affirming care” (or administrative services for that care) in Texas or based in Texas.
“Likewise, SCH [Seattle Children’s Hospital] providers have not provided telemedicine services to Texas residents for ‘gender-affirming care’…or ‘Gender Transitioning or Gender Reassignment Procedures and Treatments,'” said McDonald in her affidavit. “Based on a search of records by our revenue cycle department, there is no record that SCH has provided any ‘gender-affirming care’…or ‘Gender Transitioning or Gender Reassignment Procedures and Treatments’…using public money from the State of Texas or with reimbursement from Texas’s Medicaid or Texas’s child health plan programs.”
The affidavit also claims that the hospital “has not marketed or advertised” transition-related medical care in Texas.
The two other affidavits were filed by a senior director responsible for the hospital’s email system and the senior director responsible for the hospital’s electronic health records system. Both swear that all of the servers and devices providing those services are based in Seattle.
“The Demands should also be set aside because they are not bona fide investigation into
violations of the DTPA and therefore are not proper exercise of the Attorney General’s authority,” the lawsuit states. “The Demands are an improper attempt by the Attorney General to investigate and enforce recently-enacted [Texas] SB 14 against Seattle Children’s based on healthcare services that may have been provided by or at Seattle Children’s within the State of Washington.”
JUNE: Gov. Abbott signs bill banning transgender health care for minors into law
The lawsuit cites definitions made in Senate Bill 14 that restricts the law’s scope to Texas:
“Seattle Children’s is not (and cannot be) in violation of SB 14. The Demands are, therefore, an improper and ultra vires attempt to enforce SB 14 beyond the scope of the statute and beyond the authority of the Attorney General,” the lawsuit states. “The Attorney General, through the Demands for documents and information…is improperly attempting to investigate healthcare that did not occur in Texas.”
Along a similar line, the hospital’s attorneys claim that such an investigation violates the U.S. Constitution’s dormant Commerce Clause, which prevents States from enforcing “protectionist” laws that would erode a national marketplace.
Seattle Hospital sues after Texas Attorney General asks for handover of patient records
The Seattle Children’s Hospital filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court on Dec. 7 against the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG), after that agency requested documents related…
thehill.com
injinji
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As the High Priest of the only temple in the USA dedicated to the God Tutmosis, let me say that MJ's mythology is flawed.Truly frightening.
Mike Johnson Compares Himself to Moses at Christian Nationalist Gala
House Speaker Mike Johnson compared himself to Moses while speaking at a Christian nationalist gala on Tuesday.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
doublejj
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Iowa won’t participate in US food assistance program for kids this summer
Iowa will not participate this summer in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out, state officials have announced.
apnews.com
Iowa will not participate this summer in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out, state officials have announced.
Iowa won't participate in US food assistance program for kids this summer
“Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions,” Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds said.
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