Starting in the 1950s, there was a push to get meat onto Americans' plates at every meal.
So you would have breakfast with maybe perhaps sausage offered.
You'd have lunch where it would be deli meat sandwiches.
And you'd have dinner that would center over a large cut of meat.
The hidden forces behind our everyday decisions.
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House Republicans are trying to finalize a spending bill amid disagreement over proposed steep cuts to Medicaid.
Moderate Republicans have won some concessions,
but NPR's Lena Moore reports that GOP conservatives are pushing back.
This week,
Speaker Johnson said that at least one of the previously floated options
for cutting Medicaid is now off the table,
a move that may complicate Republicans' goal of finding a total of $1.5 trillion in savings.
And in a letter to Johnson, many hardline conservatives say that goal was non-negotiable.
Georgia Congressman Rich McCormick is one of them.
He says the speaker has a hard decision to make.
Now you have 32 members that said this is our criteria.
We're not negotiable on this.
You cannot pass the big,