Yikes: John Sununu runs away when asked about his support for the war driving up fuel prices.
What he won’t say: he’s profiting off the war every day it continues.
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Rising fuel prices hit every part of the economy.
Grocery costs, already up because of Trump’s tariffs, are set to rise even more.
Working Americans can’t afford this.
ABC News@ABC
Higher grocery prices could soon hit supermarkets as the war with Iran continues. The higher prices are because of a surge in the cost of diesel fuel, which powers many of the vehicles transport products across a vast global supply chain. abcnews.link/QyhHNd7
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Breaking: New polling shows Talarico beating Paxton and Cornyn.
POLITICO@politico
Poll: Talarico leads Cornyn and Paxton in general election matchups dlvr.it/TRbs7d
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Senate Majority PAC retweetledi
You guessed it. Republicans objected a fifth time to paying TSA workers.
Chuck Schumer@SenSchumer
In a few minutes Democrats will be giving Republicans a FIFTH chance to pay TSA workers. Will they finally fund TSA or once again object?
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Republicans spent the week talking about the need to pay TSA workers.
Democrats put forward a plan to fully fund TSA for the fifth time.
Republicans still won’t vote for it, because this funding fight isn’t about TSA workers, it’s about Republicans pushing for more ICE funding with no real reforms.
Senate Democrats@SenateDems
Happening NOW🚨 The @SenateGOP has blocked TSA funding FOUR times already Senate Democrats will try for a FIFTH time to pass a bill to pay our TSA agents WATCH: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Senate Majority PAC retweetledi
In a few minutes Democrats will be giving Republicans a FIFTH chance to pay TSA workers.
Will they finally fund TSA or once again object?
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In New Hampshire, heating oil is essential, and prices are nearing $5 a gallon and rising.
Chris Pappas is calling to end the war and lower costs.
But John Sununu is backing it, and cashing in with his oil stocks while Granite Staters pay more.
wmur.com/article/home-h…
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First, Iowa farmers were hit by Trump’s reckless tariffs. Now, with his war, they’re paying more than ever for nitrogen and fertilizer.
Instead of opposing the war and fighting for farmers, Ashley Hinson is actively backing it.
She’s abandoning farmers again, because she cares more about Trump’s approval than her own constituents.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: The most irreversible consequence of this war is not happening in Tehran. It is happening in a barn in Iowa. A farmer is standing over a kitchen table looking at two seed catalogues. One is corn. One is soybeans. Corn needs 180 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Nitrogen costs $610 per ton on the CBOT March futures settlement as of yesterday, up 35 percent in a month. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria called rhizobia. They need nothing from the Strait of Hormuz. The farmer is choosing soybeans. Millions of acres are choosing soybeans. And once the planter rolls into the field, the choice cannot be reversed until next year. USDA projected corn at roughly 94 million acres for 2026, down from 98.8 million. Soybeans at 85 million, up from 81.2 million. Those projections were published February 19, before urea surged past $683 at New Orleans. The actual shift will be larger. USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. By then the seeds will be in the ground. This is the transmission channel the world is not watching. A 21-mile strait enforced by provincial commanders with sealed radio orders just rewrote the planting economics of 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth. Not through sanctions. Not through diplomacy. Through the price of a single molecule that corn cannot grow without and soybeans do not need. Now follow the cascade. The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually. That consumes roughly 43 percent of the entire US corn crop. The mandate is set by the EPA. It does not flex when corn acres shrink. It is inelastic demand consuming a fixed share of a declining supply. When supply tightens against a fixed mandate, the remaining corn reprices upward. Corn above $5 per bushel compresses every margin downstream. The US cattle herd stands at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low per USDA NASS. Poultry and pork operations face compression from higher corn prices. Feed is the single largest cost in livestock production. When feed reprices, protein reprices. When protein reprices, every grocery shelf in America absorbs the increase. This is the protein cascade. Corn to feed to meat to eggs to dairy to the checkout counter. Each link tightens because the link before it tightened. The originating cause is a urea molecule that cannot transit a strait because a provincial commander’s sealed orders say it cannot. The farmer did not start this war. The farmer cannot end it. The farmer responds to the price on the screen and the biology of the two crops in front of him. Corn needs the molecule. Soybeans do not. At $610 the arithmetic is settled. The planter rolls. The season is locked. Israel just authorised the assassination of every Iranian official on sight. The US has spent $16.5 billion. South Pars is burning. The Fed is holding rates because oil inflation will not break. Gold touched $5,000. Bitcoin is bleeding. China is running exercises near Taiwan. Sri Lanka shut down on Wednesdays. And underneath all of it, a man in a barn is making the decision that determines whether four billion people pay more for food this year. He has never heard of the Mosaic Doctrine. He does not know what a sealed contingency packet is. He knows what nitrogen costs. And he is planting soybeans. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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While Michiganders are facing a historic affordability crisis, where is Mike Rogers today?
In Newport Beach, California, hosting a fundraiser where hosts are shelling out $10,000.
LOLOCGOP@LOLOCGOP
@MichiganDems Mike Rogers jetting off to Newport Beach to conspire with other Republicans who hate government and think healthcare is only for the rich.
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Michele Tafoya has no plan to help working people, just “take one less trip to Starbuck’s.”
It’s the same old avocado toast argument, and it’s wildly out of touch.
danny@dabbs346
Oh my god. On the radio, NRSC-endorsed Michele Tafoya says that gas prices are spiking because of the Iran war that she supports and that people should “take one less trip to Starbuck’s” and to “just try to be patriots” about it. #mnsen
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$200 billion could have funded affordable health care, education, and nutrition assistance.
Instead, Trump and Republicans are spending it on an illegal war that’s hurting the global economy.
Jeff Stein@JStein_WaPo
SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for the Iran war supplemental, sources say Some White House aides think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in Congress
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Senate Majority PAC retweetledi
No matter how much Michael Whatley’s said prices are down, stuff really is getting more expensive.
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale inflation comes in hot for February with producer prices rising 3.4%, the biggest jump in a year.
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The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.
You want to know what insults Jesus?
Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.
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Senate Republicans thought they could cut health care subsidies for millions and no one would notice.
Maybe their billionaire friends didn't notice, but working Americans did, and they plan on making their voices heard in November.
Alex Jacquez@AlexSJacquez
Fresh new polling from @KFFHealthNews on ACA premiums: Voters overwhelmingly blame Republicans and plan on taking it out on them in the midterms.
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Taking a page straight out of the old Susan Collins playbook: Promise to serve limited terms and run again anyways.
Caitlin Byrd@MaryCaitlinByrd
NEW: US Sen. TIM SCOTT tells me he will run for reelection in 2028, breaking a term-limit pledge that ‘22 would be his last run postandcourier.com/politics/tim-s… #scpol #scnews #chsnews #politics
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Fact check: FALSE.
This isn’t about election integrity.
Under the SAVE Act, your driver’s license wouldn’t be enough. It's designed to make it harder for married women and other Americans to vote.
Senate Republicans@SenateGOP
You need a photo ID to rent a car, check into a hotel, even to shovel snow in NYC, but not to vote. Voter ID is common sense. Pass the SAVE America Act.
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Fed Chair Powell made it clear, this wasn’t random. Trump's reckless tariffs drove prices up.
And now, with the Iran war, the damage is only getting worse.
Acyn@Acyn
Powell: The overshoot on inflation is mainly from the goods and tariffs
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Sums up the economy under Republicans perfectly: low job growth and high inflation.
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
Fed Chair Powell: Job gains have remained low. Job openings, layoffs, and hiring show little change in recent months. Inflation remains elevated
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We don’t let refs bet on March Madness, so why let politicians trade stocks?
Vote Sherrod Brown and end congressional stock trading.
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