Danny Jacobs

Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget — a 40% increase, the largest since WWII. In exchange for more war he wants to: -Cut the EPA budget by half -Cut $10.7 billion for housing -Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs -Cancel $15 billion for clean energy -Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water -Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training -Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department -Eliminate $395 million for senior employment -Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants -Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy -Cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health -Eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) In all, cuts to domestic programs would account for a 10% reduction in discretionary spending.

Trump's 2027 budget proposal includes $82 million in cuts to USDA's Rural Business Service. This program supports economic development, boosts farms, and creates job opportunities in rural communities.

Asian protesters march outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments on birthright citizenship case carrying signs that read “Birthright. Our right.”

You've heard about the provision to keep pigs in gestation crates hidden in the farm bill. Turns out there's another anti-animal provision buried in there too. Section 3201(d) would repeal a 30-year-old law barring federal tax dollars from funding mink fur industry marketing. Mink are wild, solitary animals. On fur factory farms, they're crammed into cages where they routinely attack each other. Americans don't want factory-farmed fur. So the farm bill would use our tax dollars to subsidize marketing mink fur to wealthy consumers abroad — primarily in China. Politicians know animal welfare is more popular than this kind of corporate welfare. So they buried this in the farm bill's trade section — in a line that doesn't even mention 'fur.' This isn't a farm bill anymore. It's a factory farm bill. There's still time to tell your senators and representatives to stop it. Photo credit: Jo-Anne McArthur, WeAnimals.

🚨BREAKING - FOOD BANK MODEL IN CANADA COLLAPSES The Moose Jaw Food Bank says visits are up 150% over 4 years, but donations are DOWN 20 percent clients are now limited to ONE visit per month ....and the Food Bank is now saying state-funded food is the ONLY OPTION!