Thursday, November 2, 2023 / DAILY TALKING POINTS - President Biden Highlights Investments in Rural America: Yesterday, President Biden kicked off the administration’s Investing in Rural America Event Series to highlight the Biden-Harris administration's commitment to delivering for rural America. The president announced over $5 billion in new investments in rural America from his Bidenomics agenda – including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. These investments include: $1.7 billion to support the adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices, including a historic investment in conservation, $1.1 billion to shore up and modernize rural infrastructure, $2 billion to fund economic development projects that will help create jobs and increase access to quality health care, affordable housing, and clean water and energy, $274 million to expand access to rural high-speed internet, and $145 million to expand access to renewable energy and lower energy costs. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and other 2024 MAGA Republicans have years-long records of gutting support for farmers and ranchers and leaving rural American communities behind. Rural communities repeatedly suffered under Donald Trump’s extreme MAGA agenda that sought to gut support for farmers and ranchers who struggled through a multiyear slump in the U.S. farm economy under his watch, Ron DeSantis has opposed crucial agricultural and economic aid to rural communities throughout his political career, including refusing to push for Medicaid expansion in Florida and axing money from a budget that would have gone to farmers as part of a rural conservation program, Nikki Haley consistently rejected support for rural South Carolinians, including vetoing crucial disaster relief for farmers affected by severe flooding, And Tim Scott has a long history of opposing aid for rural farmers, families, and communities. State of the 2024 GOP Field As the 2024 Republicans continue campaigning throughout the country, here is a reminder that whoever the nominee is, they are guaranteed to be too extreme and out of touch for American families. These hopefuls are all embracing extreme positions in order to win over the MAGA base. Three key toplines: The GOP field continues to threaten health care for millions and put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block, Every GOP contender has an extreme anti-choice record and support for a federal ban has become a litmus test in their primary, GOP contenders have embraced some of the most dangerous elements of their party, such as banning books, denying free and fair elections, and choosing the NRA over public safety. Extreme Republicans Continue to Push MAGAnomics Agenda MAGA Republicans’ economic trickle-down plan has failed Americans: it created new incentives to ship jobs overseas, hurt main-street businesses, and blew up the deficit.