The Trump/Hyde-Smith plan to boost American manufacturing is to *checks notes* raise prices for pasta.

Consolidate Jackson and Ridgeland. Also, make Madison County internalize the costs of growing at Jackson's expense by making Madison County pay the state/local share of its capacity projects on its own.

Tariff hike means consumers must pinch their pennes.

This happens with startling frequency...

After several weeks telling people worried about health premiums that their issue has to wait until after the government reopens, all but two Republicans today decided banning hemp products can't wait that long—unlike health premiums, banning hemp products is a top priority.

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Trump is intentionally driving up car prices, so he wants to normalize higher car prices by encouraging consumers take out greater levels of debt for longer. His plan would be especially bad for Mississippi.

Peter Navarro agrees that if tariffs are taxes, then Trump's IEEPA tariffs are unconstitutional.

Cindy Hyde-Smith has been useless to Mississippi farmers who need the new Trump taxes off pesticides. https://t.co/cX89jR7BAq

💰Tariff Dividends Could Cost $600B/Year ⤵️ President Trump proposed paying a dividend of "at least $2,000 a person" with new tariff revenue, excluding "high income people." He also discussed paying down the national debt. But these dividends, if awarded annually, would add

🚨“Clean CR” Would Forgive $3.4 Trillion in Debt Congress is voting this week on a CR-Minibus appropriations bill. The package would extend temporary funding for nine appropriations bills and certain expiring programs until the end of January while providing full-year

Tariffs as advertised—every town gets a new auto factory! Tariffs in reality—cars get more expensive, the feds spend your taxes bailing out row-crop farm owners, and your sporting goods store closes.

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced

@shadwhite @tatereeves @JasonWhiteMS @RepRJohnson @DelbertHosemann @SenDTSimmons @JeremyEnglandMS @BGThompsonMS @msdemocrats @grantcallen @StarlaMBrown @ChipPickering @BennieGThompson @RogerWicker That's where MS's headed if SCOTUS rules how Shad wants, but fortunately, there's a 3rd option—all #MSleg has to do is draw competitive districts for Congress and for itself and require local gov'ts to do the same in their own redistricting. If that's what Shad wants, I'm all in.

@shadwhite @tatereeves @JasonWhiteMS @RepRJohnson @DelbertHosemann @SenDTSimmons @JeremyEnglandMS @BGThompsonMS @msdemocrats @grantcallen @StarlaMBrown @ChipPickering @BennieGThompson @RogerWicker One of the reasons in favor of creating the effects test was that without it, voting-rights litigation is a food-fight of heated litigation about intentional racial discrimination, which just makes everyone miserable.

@shadwhite @tatereeves @JasonWhiteMS @RepRJohnson @DelbertHosemann @SenDTSimmons @JeremyEnglandMS @BGThompsonMS @msdemocrats @grantcallen @StarlaMBrown @ChipPickering @BennieGThompson @RogerWicker As VRA lawyers drop the social scientists they retain to perform expensive election analyses for purposes of the VRA's effects tests and invest instead in proving intentional discrimination, more and more claims of intentional discrimination will be made at the local level too.

@shadwhite @tatereeves @JasonWhiteMS @RepRJohnson @DelbertHosemann @SenDTSimmons @JeremyEnglandMS @BGThompsonMS @msdemocrats @grantcallen @StarlaMBrown @ChipPickering @BennieGThompson @RogerWicker There is frankly a great deal of material those lawyers can use to build a case that #MSleg maintains heavily packed districts for the specific purpose of discriminating against black voters and not simply for partisan advantage over Democrats.

@shadwhite @tatereeves @JasonWhiteMS @RepRJohnson @DelbertHosemann @SenDTSimmons @JeremyEnglandMS @BGThompsonMS @msdemocrats @grantcallen @StarlaMBrown @ChipPickering @BennieGThompson @RogerWicker The answer is obvious if you know the history of what Shad's complaining about—if the effects test goes away, then the only way for VRA plaintiffs to get relief is to prove intentional racial discrimination. So, VRA lawyers will focus on proving intentional racial discrimination.

@shadwhite @tatereeves @JasonWhiteMS @RepRJohnson @DelbertHosemann @SenDTSimmons @JeremyEnglandMS @BGThompsonMS @msdemocrats @grantcallen @StarlaMBrown @ChipPickering @BennieGThompson @RogerWicker Overall, MS's politics would become less racially polarized. Sounds great! But what about the alternative? What would happen if SCOTUS overturns the applications of the VRA Shad dislikes and Mississippi reverts to having ever fewer competitive general elections rather than more?

@shadwhite @tatereeves @JasonWhiteMS @RepRJohnson @DelbertHosemann @SenDTSimmons @JeremyEnglandMS @BGThompsonMS @msdemocrats @grantcallen @StarlaMBrown @ChipPickering @BennieGThompson @RogerWicker What would happen if #MSleg draws more competitive districts? Well, Sen. England will get exactly what he wants—the MSGOP will make it a priority to reach black voters in areas where thy've been MIA for a long time, while MS Democrats gain new opportunities to reach white voters.