Donald Trump is set to deliver a partisan message about tax cuts and regulation-slashing to America’s largest agriculture group on Monday.
Most of the benefits of the bill he signed into law before Christmas will go ‘to working families, small businesses and family farmers,’ he will say, according to an excerpt from his Nashville, Tennessee speech released by the White House.
He will tell the salt-of-the-earth American Farm Bureau Federation that every Democrat in Congress opposed the tax reform package, ‘and if the Democrats ever had the chance, the first thing they would do is try to raise your taxes.’
Among the changes in tax law this year is a new allowance for businesses, including farmers, to deduct the full cost of new equipment immediately instead of spreading it out over a number of years.
That has been a hit with farmers whose livelihood depends on operating tractors, combines and harvesting machines.
‘And from now on, most family farms and small business owners will be spared the punishment of the deeply unfair estate tax, known as the death tax,’ he will say, ‘so you can keep your farms in the family.’
Trump will also take a victory lap over his administration’s record of rescinding or canceling 22 federal regulations for each new one put into place.
‘For years, many of you have endured burdensome fines, inspections, paperwork, and relentless intrusion from an army of regulators at the EPA, the FDA, and countless other federal agencies,’ he will say.
After Trump promotes his plans to boost economic development in rural communities, he will attend college football’s championship game between Alabama and Georgia game in Atlanta.
President Donald Trump is promoting his administration’s plans to boost economic development in rural communities – and reserving a seat at college football’s championship game.
Alabama Crimson Tide defensive lineman Da’Ron Payne (94) is swarmed by the Alabama offense after catching an early second half touchdown during the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl between the Alabama Crimson Tide and Clemson Tigers
(L-R) OL Justin Shaffer (54), C Lamont Gaillard (53) and OT Kendall Baker (65) of the Georgia Bulldogs celebrate after the Bulldogs victory in the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game between the Georgia Bulldogs and Oklahoma Sooners
The White House says a central point in a new report to the president on rural communities will be the importance of connectivity.
The report calls for expediting federal permitting to allow for broadband internet expansion in rural areas and for making it easier for providers to place cell towers on federal lands.
The NAACP is urging people to wear white and hold anti-Trump signs on Monday for President Donald Trump’s visit to Atlanta.
Another group says demonstrators will ‘take a knee’ before the big football game, a reference to the widespread pre-game protests by NFL players during the playing of the National Anthem.
Atlanta police say they worked with the Secret Service on preparations for months before the College Football Championship game between Alabama and Georgia.
Another group, Refuse Fascism ATL, says that before kickoff, they’ll ‘take a knee against Trump’ outside CNN’s world headquarters, in solidarity with athletes who have knelt during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says the halftime song at the College Football Championship game should be ‘We Shall Overcome.’
That’s because he says most of the players for both Georgia and Alabama are black, and they could not have played had the South remained segregated.
Trump won the states of Alabama and Georgia in the 2016 presidential election, but Jackson says his politics and policies are antithetical to Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream for America
Jackson says the big game’s real meaning is that blacks can win on the playing field, but still face racial barriers after they take off their uniforms.
On Monday morning the president signed a bill into law that establishes an African American Civil Rights Network within the National Park Service.