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New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik along with nearly 30 other congressional representatives on Wednesday slammed the Biden administration's proposal to reduce the amount of milk given out as part of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), arguing that it will "exacerbate the crisis families are already facing with skyrocketing prices at the grocery store." According to the bipartisan joint letter addressed to Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack, the proposed rule would "result in a substantial reduction in the maximum monthly allowance (MMA) for milk through the WIC program." "The current MMA for...

Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Thursday slammed the Food and Drug Administration for its ruling in favor of plant-based milk substitutes, signaling conflict ahead between the agency and a lawmaker representing the state synonymous with dairy farming. The FDA ruled this week that U.S. manufacturers will be able to continue calling certain liquids "milk" even though they come from plant-based sources such as almonds and soy. The ruling came over the protests of dairy farmers who seek to reserve the designation "milk" for true milk. The FDA said in its draft guidance that the "milk" label is "strongly rooted...

The global oil market environment of very strong demand and very little spare capacity offers a huge opportunity to the radical jihadists. The terrorists believe that the best way to hurt the global Western economy is to go after oil. Since the end of the major hostilities in Iraq, there have been close to 300 attacks on pipelines, refineries, and other facilities, and there have been attacks on oil installations in many other parts of the world, including Chechnya, Pakistan, India, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Nigeria. The cumulative impact of those attacks amounts to about 1 million barrels a day that...