• President Trump on Friday ordered the Justice Department to launch an investigation into foreign meatpacking companies for driving up the price of beef through “illicit collusion.”
• Beef prices are soaring in the US. According to some reports, ground beef and steak prices are up nearly 50% since July 2020.
• Trump has launched an investigation into meatpacking companies for possible price fixing and manipulation.

these Corporations are not criminally profiting at the expense of the American People. I am asking the DOJ to act expeditiously. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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the Democrats for over the past 4 years.

In less than 10 short months, President Trump: Signed the largest middle-class tax cuts in American History, including No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, and No Tax on Social Security. Unleashed American energy dominance to help bring gasoline prices to the lowest in 5 years and also lower energy costs overall – and they will continue to fall! This is very important, because we know energy costs are the #1 driver of Inflation. Negotiated most-favored-nation-pricing agreements to lower prescription drug prices with 5 Big Pharma companies and counting! Cut 30 regulations for every new 1 on the books to remove unnecessary red tape and fuel small businesses. Wages rising at the fastest pace in 60 years. The cost of the typical new mortgage is down by nearly $3,000 dollars a year. The price of eggs, butter, ice cream, fresh fruit, cereal, fish, seafood, rice, pasta, and ham are all falling. And the best is yet to come. President Trump’s pro-growth policies are a proven formula to Make America Affordable Again. They worked in his first term, and they are slowly but surely working now. It’s the Democrats’ radical policies that create UNAFFORDABILITY – just look at the cost-of-living in California and New York! TRUST IN TRUMP!

Creation and TimingPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Housing Act into law on June 27, 1934, establishing the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). This was part of the broader New Deal efforts to address the Great Depression’s economic fallout, particularly the housing crisis.Why Did Roosevelt Do This?The U.S. was gripped by a severe mortgage crisis in the early 1930s: banks had failed en masse, foreclosures surged (over 1,000 homes per day at their peak), and traditional mortgages were short-term (typically 3–5 years), non-amortizing (requiring balloon payments), with high down payments (30–50%) and interest rates around 6–8%. Homeownership rates had plummeted to about 44%. The FHA was created to insure mortgages issued by private lenders, reducing their risk of defaults and encouraging them to lend more freely. This aimed to:

• Prevent further foreclosures and stabilize the banking system.
• Stimulate the construction industry and broader economy by making home buying accessible to middle- and working-class families.
• Promote long-term homeownership as a pillar of economic recovery and social stability.

By standardizing longer loan terms (up to 30 years) and lower down payments (as low as 10%), the FHA transformed mortgages from speculative, high-risk products into predictable, affordable ones.What Was the Interest Rate?The initial FHA-insured mortgage rates in 1934 averaged about 5.45%, a notable drop from pre-Depression levels of 6% or higher. These were fixed rates on self-amortizing loans (where principal and interest were paid gradually over the term), which further lowered monthly payments and made homeownership feasible for more Americans. Rates continued to decline slightly in subsequent years, reaching around 5% by 1938.What Happened as a Result?The FHA’s innovations revolutionized the U.S. housing market with profound, mixed impacts:

• It injected liquidity into the mortgage system, spurring a boom in home construction (e.g., over 2.3 million FHA-insured homes by 1940). Homeownership rates climbed steadily—from 44% in 1934 to 63% by 1972 and peaking near 69% in 2004—fueling suburban growth and middle-class wealth-building.
• The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage became the dominant product, financing about 80% of U.S. homes today. It also laid the groundwork for later entities like Fannie Mae (1938).

Overall, while the FHA helped pull the economy out of the Depression’s depths, it also embedded inequalities that shaped American housing for decades.

• Donald Trump, there have been eight presidents in just the last 100 years who had no problem in using tariffs as leverage to gain a better deal for American consumers.
• Starting with Herbert Hoover, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was established in 1930 to protect the interests of American farmers and manufacturers. It raised tariffs on more than 20,000 imported goods often by 40%–60%.
• It first targeted agricultural products, but later expanded to industrial goods under pressure from manufacturing lobbies.

• The result was that it became one of the highest protective tariffs in U.S. history.
• Seeing the success of Smoot-Hawley, FDR got the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (1934) passed through Congress.
• This act didn’t increase tariffs, but it gave the president the ability to negotiate from a position of strength and eventually reduced duties through bilateral trade deals.
• In 1963-1964, President Lyndon Johnson retaliated against European tariffs in what has become known as the “chicken war.”
• Johnson imposed tariffs on imported light trucks, brandy, potato starch, and dextrin.
• The 25% tariff on light trucks (the “chicken tax”) still exists today and protects U.S. automakers.
• The 1980s saw President Ronald Reagan use tariffs on Japan to address trade imbalances and unfair trade practices by that country. He placed quotas and tariffs on Japanese motorcycles that helped protect Harley-Davidson’s competitiveness. He also restricted imports of Japanese semiconductors and automobiles.
• Reagan’s successor, George H.W. Bush helped protect U.S. steel manufacturers by imposing tariffs on Brazilian and European steel. Bush used these tariffs as a negotiating tool in similar fashion to his predecessors.
• In 2002, following in his father’s footsteps, President George W. Bush imposed 30% steel tariffs on imported steel to help the struggling domestic industry.
• After the European Union threatened sanctions, the WTO ruled against the U.S. and tariffs were withdrawn after 21 months.

• President Barack Obama imposed a 35% tariff on Chinese Tires in 2009 to protect U.S. tire makers. This boosted U.S. tire makers’ production, but it ended up in higher consumer prices.
• China then retaliated with tariffs on U.S. poultry and auto parts.
• President Trump took the tariff gloves off during his first term with his “America First” trade policy and pressured China, Mexico, the E.U., and others.
• He imposed tariffs on $360+ billion in Chinese goods under Section 301 (intellectual property); slapped steel and aluminum tariffs (25% and 10%, respectively) and threatened or imposed tariffs on automobiles, solar panels, and washing machines.
• And while this triggered global retaliation, disrupted supply chains, it was the first major salvo fired aimed at reshaping U.S. trade policy debates.
• Even though Joe Biden has only been an ex-president for eleven months, people in the media and in the pundit class have apparantly forgotten Biden’s use of tariff policy.
• Unlike Trump’s broad and aggressive use of tariffs, Biden treated tariffs as leverage in negotiations — particularly with China — and as tools for industrial and climate policy rather than pure protectionism.
• Biden actually continued using Trump-era tariffs on China. He maintained nearly all of Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports and used them as bargaining tools in U.S.–China trade and technology talks.

• This was done to protect semiconductors, green tech, and critical minerals industries to promote his “green economy.”
• He linked tariffs to the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and CHIPS and Science Act, both supposedly aimed at strengthening domestic production.
• In addition, Biden either imposed or considered imposing tariffs on Chinese solar panels, batteries, and electric vehicles (EVs) to prevent “dumping” of subsidized Chinese green tech into U.S. markets.
• He modified but did not remove steel and aluminum tariffs and converted Trump’s blanket tariffs (25% on steel, 10% on aluminum) into tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for allies like the E.U., Japan, and the U.K.
• This allowed for limited imports without tariffs but preserved protection for U.S. producers.
• During the last year of his presidency, Joe Biden raised tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese imports, including: 100% tariffs on electric vehicles (EVs), 50% on solar cells, 25% on steel and aluminum and 50% on semiconductors.
• These were deemed necessary to protect “strategic industries.”
• Looking back, it can be said that Biden’s tariff policy marked a shift from Trump’s “trade war” to that of an “industrial defense” position. He basically kept Trump’s tariffs, refined their focus, and added climate and supply chain resilience as justifications.
• Critics argue that this approach blurs the line between protectionism and industrial policy, while supporters see it as strategic containment of China’s dominance in key sectors.
• The U.S. Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments about whether the president has the authority to essentially take over and/or manage the setting and implementation of tariffs.
• Those opposed to this power being vested in the executive’s hands will argue that only Congress has the power to tax and that a tariff is a tax.
• I and many others maintain that tariffs are simply another legitimate and normal cost of doing business when it comes to imported goods. Unlike those fluctuating costs directly related to the production of an item like energy, logistics, labor and many others, the major difference with tariffs is that they are the most visible and fixed costs associated with a product.
• The bottom line is that no consumer is required to buy any imported product that has a tariff attached to it, and should they choose to reject those products and keep their money in their pockets they will not pay any of the costs of producing that product, including tariffs.
• Taxes, on the other hand, are applied when a product either passes from one part of the production and distribution chain to the other, but they stop dead in their tracks at the end-user stage if the end-user simply says, “no thanks; I’m not buying it.”

• The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision on Thursday, allowed President Trump to enforce a new policy that has ended the use of the “X” marker on passports.
• The high court issued the decision in an unsigned order.
• President Trump signed an executive order shortly after his inauguration, which directed agencies like the State Department and Homeland Security to issue IDs, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, based solely on biological sex assigned at birth.

J6 Shocker: FBI informants warned of armed violence, Antifa presence before riot, lawmaker reveals

• Rep. Barry Loudermilk says he fears that the FBI withheld vital intelligence, creating fateful security holes before Capitol riot.

• Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas is urging the Justice Department to open a federal investigation of the far left activist group Code Pink over alleged material support for enemies of the United States.
• It is amazing that this has not already happened.
• Code Pink has been around for years and loves to make a spectacle of themselves by interrupting government hearings and screaming nonsense. In addition to any potentially illegal activity, they’re just plain annoying.

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