January 2022

The 2,465 page Build Back Better bill was filled with “pork.” The cost went from “zero dollars” to $3.5 trillion to over $5 trillion! Almost $80 billion would have gone to weaponizing the IRS to assist in looking at transactions in your account that were over $600, later raised to $10,000. There is also around $12 billion for electric cars, $1 trillion to turn government facilities into “green buildings,” new funding for gender identity issues and bias training, massively expanding federal tax dollars for abortions without the Hyde amendment protections, while limiting seniors’ access to new cures and treatments by imposing socialist price controls on prescription drugs, subsidizing union members’ dues and on and on….

Minnesota Farmers Union praised the Biden-Harris administration for dedicating $1 billion to expand independent processing capacity. “COVID-19 laid bare the fact that our meat processing system is too consolidated,” said Minnesota Farmers Union (MFU) President Gary Wertish.