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If brains were paper straws, Donald Trump wouldn’t have enough to blow his wig off. In one of his many bizarre and disturbing utterances since taking office, President Trump revealed this little known ...

Donald Trump has signed an executive order to bring back plastic straws because their paper counterparts "explode." "It's a ridiculous situation. We're going back to plastic straws," Trump told ...

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Donald Trump has vowed to reverse a ban on plastic straws after he claimed the paper version sometimes 'explodes'. It comes after the Biden administration began phasing out plastic straws in 2024 ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday encouraging both the federal government and American consumers to buy plastic drinking straws — a formal rebuke of former President Joe Biden’s ...

On February 10, 2025, President Trump authorized Executive Order 14208 (E.O. 14208) revising United States federal policy on paper straw use. E.O. 14208 specifically called on the federal government ...

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The paper straw, Guy Spinelli was sure, would be the way of the future. After 50 years toiling in the country’s paper mills, the 75-year-old plunked his life savings into creating a “24 hours strong” ...

Half a billion straws are used in the United States every day, according to a popular — but perhaps not the most scientific — estimate. The biggest buyer: the federal government, which buys more ...