Ben Cline doesn’t have any town halls on his schedule. Can’t blame him. People are turning out in droves at the town halls held by other MAGAs in Congress to give ‘em hell.
The closest thing we can do to give Cline hell is give the poor junior staffers assigned to run the mobile office hours events across the Sixth District this week hell.
There’s one here in our backyard, at the Waynesboro Public Library, on Thursday starting at 12:30 p.m.
Among the things we could get the poor junior staffers running that one to answer for:
‘Lockstep’
“@HouseGOP is in lockstep with President @realDonaldTrump.” Cline tweeted this on Friday, along with a video of him talking on Fox Business, bragging about how “we are united in the House behind President Trump’s agenda. “
“We want to work hard to secure the border, to fund defense, to make sure that we get rid of the Green New Deal, and instead just, just get very excited about American energy production. We want to make sure that we extend the president’s tax cuts, revitalize the economy, but also save taxpayers money by incorporating the DOGE cuts and finding waste, fraud and abuse and eliminating it as well,” Cline said in the TV hit.
Contact Ben Cline
- Phone: (202) 225-5431
- Web: bit.ly/BenClineContactForm
- D.C. office: 2443 Rayburn House Office Building (directions)
So, Cline wants to extend the 2017 tax cuts that were skewed toward the elites: the upper 1 percent will receive an average tax cut of more than $60,000 in 2025, compared to an average tax cut of less than $500 for households in the bottom 60 percent, according to the Tax Policy Center.
Meanwhile, the “waste, fraud and abuse” that Cline’s buddy, Elon Musk, is finding is a rounding error in the federal budget.
Eggs
Another tweet, dating way back, to Feb. 12:
“Yesterday, I received an update on the avian flu outbreak, which has impacted the agriculture industry and increased the cost of eggs nationwide. Agriculture is a vital part of life in #VA06, and I’m closely monitoring the situation as it continues to develop. Supporting our farmers and protecting our local agricultural community remain a top priority.”
Ah, Ben, eggs are still expensive, and Farm Action, a farmer-led organization fighting corporate monopolies in agriculture, said the impact of the bird flu on production has been “minimal,” and blames the five largest egg producers for inflating prices for bigger profits.
“Dominant egg producers have leveraged the crisis to raise prices, amass record profits and consolidate market power,” said Angela Huffman, president of Farm Action, in a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice dated Feb. 12.
You’re “closely monitoring the situation”?
Maybe you should “closely monitor” Big Agriculture.
Debt
One more:
“Tonight, I was proud to vote with House Budget Committee Republicans to pass a Budget that will implement the Trump agenda, energize the American economy, and finally end the Biden era of fiscal irresponsibility.”
This was a tweet from Cline on Feb. 13.
On the “Biden era of fiscal irresponsibility” dig: the national debt grew by $7 trillion during Biden’s four-year term; it grew by $8.2 trillion during Trump’s first four-year term.
Is Bennie telling us here that he was “proud to vote” to “finally end the Biden era of fiscal irresponsibility” because he wants us to go back to the more profligate fiscal irresponsibility of Trump?
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Chris Graham
