DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – US President Cindy Axne of Iowa was quick to repay a $ 1 trillion debt to the Senate last month. It is not the price that disturbed the Democrats from the House government. It was the case that none of the funds were regulated in state-owned companies – ethanol and biodiesel.
Axne began to fix this. In the weeks leading up to it, he has received a confirmation from church leaders that a multi-billion dollar program will include fuel for renewable fuel. Now he is on his way.
Its discovery of biofuels confirms the political views of the ruling party on spending in government.
As Democrats begin to provide the desired loans and the old development of social security and new long-sought-after programs, it is not the Democrats who are at political risk such as Axne who are selling them at home. For them, the amount of money in Washington has been an opportunity to donate the property – and win headlines and perhaps support two people in their respective states.
“If he wants to be re-elected, this is his political bread and butter,” said Ray Gaesser, a Republican farmer in Axne state and a former civil rights activist for Iowa’s agricultural secretary. “For my part, I appreciate his approach.”
Rep. Minnesota’s Angie Craig did the same.
Craig, whose territory includes several farms in the southeastern Twin Cities, is pushing for $ 2.5 billion from farmers and small rural businesses to switch to electricity and renewable energy equipment to help meet environmental needs.
He posted on Friday that he was “delighted that my big project” will be “helping local farmers and raising funds for rural America.”
In Virginia, Rep. Abigail Spanberger said she was looking at ways to apologize to smallholder farmers and their forests for the additional taxes that President Joe Biden wants to help pay $ 3.5 trillion.
Although the Spanberger region is concentrated in the mountainous region of Richmond, the region faces north and south across, the Piedmont farm with its many dairy farms, vegetables and cattle as well as private forests.
“I have been very focused on ensuring that we protect smallholder farmers and forests, especially in the state of Virginia,” Spanberger told The Associated Press.
The efforts of lawmakers want to help in rural America, where Democrats have lost votes over the past 10 years. The party is clearly looking into the need to reduce its size in those areas, if it wants to have a parliamentary seat – and to improve the House in 2022.
Democrats currently have about eight seats. Republicans are running for 30 seats while Democrats won by less than 10 percent. Axne, Spanberger and Craig each won no more than 2 percent.
“There has been a concerted effort to think of the donations in ways that would benefit rural communities,” said Democratic researcher Geoff Garin, who advises the party to invest.
Republicans argue that growing spending cuts off rural voters in major states, not attracting support.
“Rural voters are deeply concerned about reckless spending and high taxes that will be included in Democrats’ reconciliation laws,” said Mike Berg, spokesman for the National Republican DRM Committee. “If Democrats think that the concerns of these voters will be slightly changed from the federal government, they are wrong.”
$ 1 trillion – road plans, bridges, government transportation and the Internet – passed through the Democratic Republic-led Senate with the help of bipartisan last month. The House is expected to pass the bill, but its success comes in the wake of a $ 3.5 trillion upgrade that includes additional child tax payments, increased Medicare coverage, a no-college college, and other social and environmental programs.
Pelosi has set a goal through October 1.
Axne announced Wednesday that the investment includes $ 1 billion to boost the availability of ethanol and biodiesel sales across the country. Iowa leads the country in producing ethanol, corn oil, and biodiesel, which are mainly made from soybeans. That amount is double the amount Axne demanded in a bill she wrote to the House Agriculture Committee this year.
The money is expected to increase global demand for oil, drive Iowa wells to deplete 42 ethanol and biodiesel fuels, and raise the price of corn and soybeans for suppliers, according to Iowa energy officials.
“It affects more than $ 1 per soybean price. It’s a lot of money,” said Monte Shaw, executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association and a former Republican in Congress. Iowa, because the price of corn is so high. “
In addition, at the lowest cost of the entire bill, the measure would accelerate carbon emissions, ahead of Biden’s assumptions, Axne said.
“There’s no way anyone can drive electric cars all night,” Axne said in a recent AP interview. “So why aren’t we better, if our goal is to affect the weather more efficiently, and combine more biofuels now we can lower greenhouse gases?”
It is also a low price to sit in a house against the Democrats’ chances of a majority.
Axne distinguishes victory by a very small percentage – 1.4 percent – of every Democrat in the Republican-occupied Donald Trump government last year.
Last year, the former governor and small business owner from the rural towns of Des Moines conquered Polk County, the hometown of Des Moines and its many territories, but lost 15 more districts in the region.
As Spanberger encouraged the rural population of Virgini, Axne’s emphasis on the GOP region’s important economic situation in his region could reduce its losses in rural Iowa next year.
There will be other reasons, of course. The full acceptance of Biden, which has been criticized after being criticized for the recent disruption in the United States from Afghanistan and the increase in COVID-19 cases, should be a major factor. And a number of factors will be involved in the election process in less than 17 months.
However, Axne’s early success is a good sign for her, says Shaw, who advocates for Republican oil power.
“I don’t like to say that one thing makes or breaks someone. “There are times when you have the opportunity to make changes and that’s when the ball meets the road,” he said. Finally, we need people who can save. “