I think the 500-pound gorilla that we have not talked about yet in this Committee hearing is: Is there a political will to continue to subsidize the same way we subsidize crop insurance for farmers?
Heidi Heitkamp: “I think the 500-pound gorilla that we have not talked about yet in this Committee hearing is: Is there a political will…”
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Heitkamp questions the political will to continue flood insurance subsidies.
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Oh, I think it`s absolutely self-preservation. They see the handwriting on the wall that in the annals of history, this is not going to look well.
The races that I`m watching right now in North Dakota are races for the school board. We`ve had a couple of attempts at recall elections, people wanting to ban books, people wanting to bring a whole different dynamic to schools, really…
I think they have a sense that something is happening out there, that has created now an opportunity for other Republicans to step forward.
A lot of them didn`t like Donald Trump. They didn`t like how we behaved. They didn`t like the lies, but they did pretty well in the Trump years.





