In addition to the devastating cuts to Medicaid over the next decade, which will impact rural America to the tune of $155 billion and result in the closing of many rural hospitals, the Malignant Fascist has more pain in store for the parts of the country that voted for him:
Defunding PBS and NPR and foreign food aid
Senate Republicans voted in the wee hours of Thursday morning to cut $9 billion worth of congressionally appropriated funds to NPR, PBS, and foreign aid—yet another move that hurts the rural communities that back Republicans at the ballot box. [snip]
The $9 billion in cuts make permanent some of the funding reductions former co-President Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency wanted to make.
Cutting public radio and television funding will hurt rural communities, which rely on public media for extreme weather warnings. It will also hurt rural farming communities, which took in billions of foreign aid dollars to grow the food that was shipped abroad to help end hunger in poor countries...
Trump's Coke fetish and American corn farmers
U.S. corn growers have said that Donald Trump’s push to use real sugar cane in Coca-Cola “doesn’t make sense” and will cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs.
In a statement, the Corn Refiners Association added that the move would also lower farm income and boost imports of foreign sugar “all with no nutritional benefit.”
It comes after Trump announced Wednesday that he had spoken to executives at Coca-Cola about changing the recipe – replacing high fructose corn syrup with sugar cane. “This will be a very good move by them — You’ll see. It’s just better!” the president wrote. [snip]
As noted by Axios, a full shift to the use of cane sugar from high fructose corn syrup in Coca-Cola could result in an economic hit to Iowa – the country's largest corn producer. However, it would also help the economy of Florida, the U.S.'s top cane sugar producer.
In a statement, Coca-Cola did not confirm a full shift to the use of sugar cane.
"We appreciate President Trump's enthusiasm for our iconic Coca‑Cola brand," a spokesperson said. "More details on new innovative offerings within our Coca‑Cola product range will be shared soon." (Ed. -- sounds like they want to please the Malignant Fascist, but are weaseling on doing a wholesale switch to cane sugar.]
Expect more pain to come, especially to rural America, when TACO Trump's tariffs kick in. Lucky for him, he has the fallback of all the good will he's built up with his base by his long crusade to expose the pedos in the Epstein files!
Our roots are in rural America, so none of this pleases us. But, elections have consequences, and the consequences for rural America voting for the Malignant Fascist and his Republican cultists are starting to come home to roost.
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