“For a U.S. senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team, which I knew, knowing my Midwestern sports, and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag is something that deserves an apology.
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Senator • Minnesota
Senior United States Senator from Minnesota.
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“This bill is focused on getting approvals, presenting your models to government experts, [and] alerting of imminent harm, like we've seen recently. I continue to believe we could get this done. We'd have to put forward the bill, and get support. … Because it is targeted at these immediate risks, it is something we could proceed on sooner rather than later.
“Mr. Boren's actions constitute potentially a misuse of taxpayer funds and put American families at further risk by diverting scarce resources from high-priority wildfires threatening communities elsewhere in the region and country.
“On behalf of the great Lake Superior, I call that superiorly stupid.
“We have always been able to work through our differences and find solutions that benefit both countries. But instead this Administration has chosen to escalate a trade war with one of our closest allies. The new 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods, followed by Canada's decision to retaliate, will only make it harder for Minnesota businesses and farmers to compete and will further drive up prices.
“New Trump tariffs just went into effect. Now it’s 50% tariffs on Canadian goods. Canada is Minnesota’s #1 trading partner. Minnesotans are paying for Trump’s chaos.
“What we are asking for is simply to not have a situation where one state that has double the error rate of my home state be able to get off scot-free for two years.
“I am committed to continuing to work with Chairman Boozman on this bill to get it done and there are good things in it for our farmers and ranchers. I also appreciate he has acknowledged the problem with the SNAP cost shift to states and counties. But amid tariff-related rising grocery prices in states across the country where SNAP has been critical, this is only a one-year fix. It still advantages high error rates states over states with mid-level error rates. A state with an error rate twice that of Minnesota will pay nothing in the second year, whereas states that have reduced their error rates will still be disadvantaged over high error rate states. Our members are simply asking for the two-year delay so all states will be on the same footing in working to reduce their error rates. That is ten percent of the total SNAP cuts.
“A man who loved his work, his country, and his family.