Wednesday News Round Up - RFK, Jr. Announces Plan to Restore America’s Middle Class.

“People have to choose between gasoline or food or medicine or food. Americans are making these choices every day.” - RFK, Jr.

Kennedy’s plan for the middle class - How to Restore America’s Middle Class – RFK, Jr. – American Values Substack:

• Renegotiate free trade agreements and impose compensatory tariffs on imports from low-wage countries. 

• Rein in military spending. A family of four’s share of current defense spending is at least $10,000 a year. Imagine if that money was devoted to free childcare or child tax credits.

• Cut healthcare costs with Medicare-for-all, restrict pharmaceutical companies’ profiteering, and redirect a portion of medical research toward inexpensive natural, holistic, and alternative therapies.

• Implement some form of student debt relief. Allow student debt to be dischargeable in bankruptcy. Cut interest rates on student loans to zero. 

• Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour – about the level it was in 1968 – which will raise the floor on all wages and return a share of productivity growth back to workers.

• Close loopholes and tighten enforcement against illegal corporate union-busting activity. The NLRB and Department of Justice must take vigorous action to enforce the letter and the spirit of the law.

RFK, Jr’s plan would reduce the expensive burden of military adventures on the middle class, end pharmaceutical industry profiteering, address the student loan debt crisis, raise the minimum wage, and end union busting.

We wondered what President Biden thought about Kennedy’s plan. Perhaps he will let us know when he returns from vacation - Home to Delaware: Biden on track to set vacationing record – Washington Examiner

Here are today’s balanced articles on RFK, Jr.:  

• U.S. War Machine Is KILLING The U.S. Middle Class – RFK Jr. – Jimmy Dore

• RFK Jr.’s Super-PAC Received Most of Its Funding from GOP Megadonor - Forbes

• Excess Deaths & Why RFK Jr. Can Win the Democratic Presidential Race - Ed Dowd – London Real

• RFK Jr Raked In $6M+ Last Month from Democratic AND Republican Donors: Rising Reacts - Rising

• Pro-RFK Jr. group reports single donor represented almost half the funds it raised | The Hill

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will campaign in Iowa to challenge Biden - Des Moines Register

Announcements:

• RFK, Jr. sees America’s farmers as vital. RFK Jr., to Host Virtual Roundtable on Farm Policy Aug. 3 at 8 p.m. ET.

• Kennedy Jr. to Address Border Crisis on August 3 at 11am PT - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Address Border Crisis, Release ‘Midnight at the Border’ Aug. 3 | Kennedy24.

We begin today’s nastygrams from Team Deep State Media with Joy Reid’s blogger Ja’han Jones at MSNBC, who criticized hip hop musician Math Hoffa for interviewing Kennedy - RFK Jr. courts Black conspiracy theorists on hip-hop podcast - MSNBC. Jones also championed the way Virgin Island Delegate Stacey Plaskett attacked RFK, Jr. during the Congressional hearing on censorship. Jones failed to mention, however, Plaskett’s extensive business ties to deceased serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Just another example of twisted DNC thinking - endorse censorship, ignore corruption.   

Here are the rest of today’s negative media coverage:

• RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It’s one of many inconsistencies - Independent.

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Used to Be a Fearsome Advocate for the Truth. What Happened? - Slate

• A running list of RFK Jr.'s controversies - The Week

• RFK Jr's super PAC is mostly funded by a GOP megadonor who spent millions on Trump and bankrolled an effort to build a border wall in Texas – Business Insider

Biden Administration problems continue:

• Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner, testifies before House panel - ABC.

• This is ‘rising to the level of treason’: GOP rep. – Fox Business

• The risks and prospects of impeaching Joe Biden | The Hill

• How fact-checkers first reported on Biden's family business – Washington Examiner

• MSM Still ATTACKING Lab Leak Theory; NBC Reporter Says ZOONOTIC Origin WAY MORE Likely?! -Rising

• DAMNING Facebook Files Show Biden Admin Censored TRUTH – Kim Iverson

Obviously, we focus on Democrat Party issues at the Kennedy Beacon – at least for now. However, former President Trump is also having legal issues:

• Live updates: Trump indicted in special counsel's 2020 election interference probe - CNN.

• Trump hit with sweeping indictment in alleged effort to overturn 2020 election - ABC.

• Trump has now been indicted for a 3rd time. Here's where all the investigations stand - AP.

Both Biden and Trump are embattled. Americans deserve new, dynamic leadership. As Tony Lyons, co-chair of American Values 2024, said today, “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is increasingly viewed by the electorate as the Democratic candidate best positioned to take votes away from Donald Trump and to win in November of 2024.”

Louis Conte, Headlines Editor

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