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GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts on Trump importing foreign beef: "We are absolutely talking with the White House about their policies and how it's actually detrimental to the long-term goal of what they want, which is bringing beef prices down"

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Pete just let trump do whatever he wanted to. Congress has somehow forgotten that they can stop stuff like this by voting NOT to import beef from other countries. They could have said no on this and dozens (maybe hundreds) of other things that trump has done for short term gain, long term pain.

Well, gosh, Senator, who have Nebraska voters backed in the last decade? Seems they keep voting against their own interests because those culture war issues are far more important than your actual well-being.

Pete Pete you don’t get it do you? You n tRump and all reptards are trying to destroy America 🇺🇸 get with the program. tRump is Putins butt boy and that’s it! Bend over and take it like tRump n jr.

Mixing our beef with chemically treated, 10year old, frozen protein matter from outside the US will certainly make some CEOs happy and increase their profits, but it’s not likely to bring down your family’s cost if you want beef. Buying from the supermarket butcher won’t get less and it might go up.

In case anyone is not clear, the only long-term goal Republicans have right now is to get past the midterms. Once that's over, they can think about moving past Trump because he'll be a lame duck for two years And should be mostly dead politically. Trump doesn't think past today. Ever.

"Trump doesn't think past today. Ever." And yet somehow Dozy Don became POTUS after J6....and every other thing that should have sank him. Don't underestimate him nor the loyalty of the GOP to him.

In other words, he is talking sideways to state his actual goals, or to help his state, or state his direct pushback against a BS policy that is likely harming his constituents. Another example of double talk and a dissolving spine

And, if Obama had promised Americans $5k if the Dems won the midterms, he'd probably be impeached. Think about THAT the next time a concern troll shithead such as Jill Stein tries to sway the election.

That and it’s pinching the wallets of all those “ rugged individualist patriotic” ranchers that voted for that asshole, probably twice. Beefs carbon footprint is huge and the best thing you can do for your American diet is cut back on red meat anyway. Eat a salmon - they are dumb too

Cattle ranching is the biggest socialist welfare project in America, except maybe general aviation. Maybe it's time to cut off the gravy train and let capitalism do it's thing and let the market decide who should be in the cattle business and where it rains enough to have cattle at all.

Thats for certain. I don’t have the source at my fingertips but it seems half of the corn crop & higher percent of soybeans go into animal feed. Iowans are nice folk but King Corn is a disastrous subsidy.

Make sure you mention no sane person wants to consume this foreign mystery meat, Sen. Ricketts. But also add that with all the food inspection and safety measures that have been gutted, plenty of people won’t eat American beef now either.