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Search results for "Trump and Vance said Iran was going to spend money on US farm products"

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JD Vance stated on February 12, 2024 in a memo shared with GOP colleagues:
“The Ukraine supplemental includes a hidden impeachment clause against President Trump.”
By Madison Czopek• February 16, 2024
JD Vance stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you're ultimately much better off.”
By Louis Jacobson• August 29, 2024
Elizabeth Warren stated on March 27, 2019 in a policy paper posted on Medium:
Mergers and integration in agribusiness "squeeze" family farms, and "the result is that farmers are getting a record-low amount of every dollar Americans spend on food."  
By Jon Greenberg• April 4, 2019
Donald Trump stated on October 07, 2023 in a news release:
"Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden administration.”
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman• October 11, 2023
National Republican Senatorial Committee stated on November 08, 2023 in an ad:
Says U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin “voted to send hundreds of millions to Iran” to bankroll “radicals like Hezbollah and Hamas.”
By Tyler Katzenberger• November 24, 2023
Karoline Leavitt stated on March 11, 2025 in a White House press briefing:
“Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.”
By Louis Jacobson• March 13, 2025
Sara Jacobs stated on December 18, 2024 in an X post:
Government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 “cost our economy billions of dollars each.”
By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• December 19, 2024
Donald Trump stated on July 29, 2023 in a speech:
Says Gov. Ron DeSantis “opposed my China tariffs and he heartlessly opposed” $28 billion for farm relief, which was paid for by China.
By Samantha Putterman• August 8, 2023
Oregon Department of Agriculture stated on June 12, 2014 in a news release:
"Oregon school districts are directing 24 percent of their food budgets to purchase local foods. That’s the highest percentage in the country."
By Dana Tims• June 18, 2014
Tammy Baldwin stated on January 02, 2019 in a tweet:
"Wisconsin lost over 600 farms last year & our farmers can't afford the #TrumpShutdown."
By D.L. Davis• January 9, 2019
JD Vance stated on September 28, 2025 in an interview:
“Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens.”
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• October 1, 2025
Nick Freitas stated on July 11, 2020 in a radio interview.:
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez votes with President Trump more than Abigail Spanberger does.”
By Warren Fiske• July 21, 2020
JD Vance stated on August 21, 2025 in a speech in Peachtree City, Georgia:
“We had the biggest tax cut for families that this country has ever seen.”
By Louis Jacobson• August 22, 2025
Donald Trump stated on April 14, 2011 in an interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News:
"Iraq has the second-largest oilfields in the world (behind) Saudi Arabia."
By Louis Jacobson• April 25, 2011
Donald Trump stated on January 08, 2020 in a White House address:
"The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration at a cost of $2.5 trillion."
By Bill McCarthy• January 10, 2020
JD Vance stated on October 10, 2022 in a debate:
“Tim Ryan when he ran for president two years ago … supported banning fracking both on public lands and generally speaking.”
By Louis Jacobson• October 11, 2022
Tim Walz stated on August 06, 2024 in a speech:
JD Vance “literally wrote the foreword for the architect of the Project 2025 agenda."
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• August 14, 2024
Joe Biden stated on June 24, 2020 in an ad:
“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
By Louis Jacobson• June 30, 2020
Mark Pocan stated on December 02, 2019 in a tweet:
Says President Donald Trump is "waging a trade war against WI farmers -- forcing > 1600 dairy farms to close."
By Eric Litke• December 11, 2019
Donald Trump stated on August 26, 2019 in a post-G7 news conference:
"We made a ridiculous deal (with Iran). We gave them $150 billion. We gave them $1.8 billion, and we got nothing."
By Jon Greenberg• August 27, 2019

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