| Updated: Feb. 2, 2021, 2:27 p.m.
After a longer-than-expected two-hour meeting Monday with President Joe Biden, Sen. Mitt Romney said the president “has genuine interest in working with” Republicans to close a gap on their competing proposals for a pandemic aid package.
“It was not just a check-the-box meeting,” Romney said in a call with Utah reporters. “We had a full airing of our different points of view and a direction by the president to continue our discussions.”
Biden is pushing for a $1.9 trillion package, while a group of 10 centrist Republicans that includes Romney seeks only about a third as much, $618 billion.
The Soy Nutrition Institute recently issued a summary statement about the latest USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans, highlighting the inclusion of soy products in all three dietary patterns for healthy eating. The U.S.-style, vegetarian and Mediterranean-style dietary patterns recommend consumption of nutrient-dense foods and beverages throughout all stages of life. The guidelines define six core elements that make up a healthy dietary pattern vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy, protein foods and oils and soy-based products are included in four of the six core elements: dairy, oils, vegetables, and protein foods.
“To have soybeans and soy-rich products included in something as important and influential as these guidelines is a significant step toward increasing overall demand for U.S. soybeans,” said Kevin Wilson, United Soybean Board farmer-leader from Indiana and Soy Nutrition Institute secretary/treasurer.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Thursday that a group of Cooperative Extension partners will have the opportunity to apply for grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help communities combat opioid use disorders. HHS intends to build on successful 2017 and 2018 National Institute of Food and […]
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Amerigroup Iowa Announces Expanded Benefits for Medicaid Members including Products for New Moms
February 1, 2021 GMT
DES MOINES, Iowa (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 1, 2021
Amerigroup Iowa announced its value added benefits portfolio for eligible Medicaid members who participate in the state’s Medicaid programs that began January 1, 2021. Included in the expanded offerings are electric breast pumps for pregnant women or women who recently delivered, and a new Healthy Rewards incentive program. Amerigroup is the first Medicaid health plan in Iowa to provide electric breast pumps to its members.
The hashtag #BidenLied exploded on Twitter over the weekend
It came after the Democratic Party posted a tweet outlining Biden s plan to distribute $1,400 stimulus checks, on top of the $600 already approved
Critics expressed outrage at the size of the forthcoming checks and claimed that Biden previously promised to deliver $2,000 checks
But in reality Biden never made that promise, instead saying that he would add on to the original $600 checks for a total of $2,000