Spanning The State

The Ramifications of Cancelling FEMA's BRIC Program, Price Gouging Eggs and Trump's Tariffs are they Policy or Trade?


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Jordan Buss a Wisconsin-Based grant writer and president of JBAD Solutions LLC joins Kristin to talk about revoking of federal funds to provide tornado safe rooms through FEMS’s BRIC programs. Buss shares his extensive work with rural school districts and years of work trying to provide these shelters. He explains what the BRIC program is, why the BRIC was cancelled by FEMA which has resulted in loosing between $24-30 million in funding for rural school districts in Wisconsin and what they plan to do next. Steve Scaffidi host of WTMJ's the Political Power Hour joins Kristin to talk about Trumps Tariffs and his recent announcement to hold off on most tariffs for 90 days. They ponder whether this is policy or about trade and how the outcomes of these actions are not the results that were intended. Then they discuss surging numbers in eggs prices and how producers have tripled their profits with price gouging due to the Avian flu.
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