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"Despite promising to stop inflation on day one, working- and middle-class Americans are still being squeezed financially as Trump cuts taxes for the wealthy and massive corporations. …
All of what we’re seeing from the Trump administration is a choice to put corporations ahead of caretakers, the wealthy ahead of workers, and the bosses ahead of the busboys."
#Trump #economy #tariffs#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill #jobs #manufacturing #inflation
/6
"As Trump talks about creating a historic manufacturing boom, the data shows he has lost tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs. As he touts an economy that’s working for American workers, Trump’s economy has more workers looking for a job than job openings for the first time since the depths of the pandemic."
#Trump #economy #tariffs#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill #jobs #manufacturing
/5
"This month, after another disappointing Jobs Report, President Donald Trump is once again looking around for someone to blame. There is no pandemic, despite RFK’s best efforts; no external supply shocks that Trump himself didn’t cause through his tariff regime. Donald Trump has spiked the baton he was handed by the Biden administration, and he has no one to blame but himself."
~ Julie A. Su
#Trump #economy #tariffs#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill
/4
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-jobs-report-is-the-trump-presidency
"On the road to authoritarianism, [what Texas Republicans are doing] is a whole factory of red flags.
It lays bare the political power grab driving the Trump administration’s expansion of the police power. Although administration officials claim to be combating crime, they are setting up a one-state political system that will answer only to MAGA."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump#WashingtonDC #fascism #military#Texas #redistricting #gerrymandering
/3
"The D.C. occupation is a totalitarian threat indicative of Trump’s wider ambition to militarize American cities and a distraction from Trump’s colossal failures (e.g., inflation, Ukraine, cutting healthcare to pay for billionaires’ tax cuts, the Jeffrey Epstein files coverup)."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump#WashingtonDC #fascism #military#Epstein #Putin #economy#BigBeautifulBill#Medicare#Medicaid
/4
"Today Trump is fully unbridled. Yet, for the first time, finds himself unable to convince majorities that he’s got a magic economic touch. As the situation deteriorates, he’ll have to either reverse course—changing pretty much everything about the way he’s governing—or else go to even greater lengths to control information and manipulate the public."
#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
/4
"For most of his years in office, Trump has benefitted from unearned public trust in his stewardship of the economy. It even kept him afloat in 2020, as he managed to persuade most Americans that the pandemic-induced recession was an act of god, rather than a crisis he exacerbated through deceit and incompetence."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
/3
"And think of how many times he promised not to cut Medicare or Medicaid, then bullied Republican members of Congress into passing a budget that takes $1 trillion from Medicaid, threatening to deny millions of Americans access to health care and force rural hospitals to close. Meanwhile, cuts to nutrition programs threaten rural grocery stores."
#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
/2
"Trump campaigned as if he had a foolproof plan to reduce grocery prices on day one, but in fact, grocery prices are up 3 percent year-over-year and reached record highs in 2025. In an example of classic Trump gaslighting, he’s telling people the bald-faced lie that prices are 'WAY DOWN.'"
~ Svante Myrick
#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
/1
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5432719-trump-broken-promises-corruption/
"Patients and medical centers are already feeling the pain as several provisions in the GOP’s deadly spending law take immediate effect, either as required or in practice. ...
Hospitals are closing or actively considering doing so, cutting programs, and laying off staff."
~ Whitney Curry Wimbish
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #hospitals#Medicaid#EconomicElites#TaxCuts
/1
People voted for this to be done to themselves and their loved ones.
"Planned Parenthood is warning patients it can no longer accept Medicaid insurance & in one region says it can’t provide services to Medicaid recipients at all, even if the patient doesn’t use Medicaid to pay. And lawmakers in at least five states are planning special sessions to revamp their already-enacted budgets & determine how to handle the cuts, including what cuts they should enact and how to administer the new Medicaid work requirement."
"Planned Parenthood is warning patients it can no longer accept Medicaid insurance & in one region says it can’t provide services to Medicaid recipients at all, even if the patient doesn’t use Medicaid to pay. And lawmakers in at least five states are planning special sessions to revamp their already-enacted budgets & determine how to handle the cuts, including what cuts they should enact and how to administer the new Medicaid work requirement."
"Patients and medical centers are already feeling the pain as several provisions in the GOP’s deadly spending law take immediate effect, either as required or in practice. ...
Hospitals are closing or actively considering doing so, cutting programs, and laying off staff."
~ Whitney Curry Wimbish
#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #hospitals#Medicaid#EconomicElites#TaxCuts
/1
People voted for this to be done to themselves and their loved ones.
More for my #american friends complaining about the smoke from #canadian#Wildfires
Maybe you shouldn't have elected folks who passed #Trump 's #bigbeautifulbill
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"A private police force with the power to conduct raids, surveillance, arrests, and disappearances—all without military oversight or congressional restraint.
With $170 billion behind it, ICE can now be deployed not just against immigrants but against anyone who threatens the regime’s ideological, economic, or political grip."
~ Jemar Tisby
"Anyone could be a target for harassment, imprisonment, or disappearing.
ICE is the president’s personal army to carry out his authoritarian will."
"Trump has called the idea 'owner responsibility.'
'[T]hey’re going to be largely responsible for these people,' Trump said. This echoes the system legislators set up in the U.S. South during Reconstruction thanks to the fact the Thirteenth Amendment permits enslavement 'as punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.'”
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE#ConcentrationCamps#SlaveLabor
/4
"A private police force with the power to conduct raids, surveillance, arrests, and disappearances—all without military oversight or congressional restraint.
With $170 billion behind it, ICE can now be deployed not just against immigrants but against anyone who threatens the regime’s ideological, economic, or political grip."
~ Jemar Tisby
Yahoo's main page right now is featuring a splashy headline (below) which says that we seniors who got Social Security's illegal email yesterday praising Trump's big, beautiful bill may have been "confused" by that email.
I beg to differ. I was not confused.
I was outraged, because the email was full of lies.
Also, as the article attached to Yahoo's headline, by Ben Adler in USA Today, says,
Lawson contends that the email praising Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' violates the Hatch Act, a law against partisan political activity by federal government employees."
And that's why I call the email illegal.
I unsubscribed from all emails from Social Security after I got this politicized pack of lies in my inbox.
This is NOT what the Social Security Administration is set up to do, and all Americans should be concerned about this overt politicization of an essential government agency.
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