‘It’s harsh. It’s mean, brutal’: Trump bill to cause most harm to America’s poorest

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Last November, Donald Trump made a solemn vow to all Americans: “Every citizen, I will fight for you, your family and your future every single day.” Eight months later, Trump is vigorously backing many policies that will mean pain for millions.

Trump has pushed to enact the Republican budget bill, which would make significant cuts to Medicaid, Obamacare, and food assistance, and would do the greatest damage to those Americans struggling hardest to make ends meet – the 30% of the US population that lives in households earning under $50,000 a year.


Even as Trump and Republican lawmakers are rushing to cut over $1.4tn in health and food assistance for non-affluent Americans, Trump continues to pressure Congress to extend over $3tn in tax cuts that disproportionately help the wealthy and corporations.

www.theguardian.com

‘It’s harsh. It’s mean, brutal’: Trump bill to cause most harm to America’s poorest

President embraces Robin-Hood-in-reverse policies to benefit wealthiest and hurt those earning under $50,000
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Several social policy experts said Trump has engaged in hypocrisy at best and betrayal at worst when it comes to the working-class and blue-collar Americans he promised to fight for. Speaking about the Republicans’ “big, beautiful” budget bill, Sharon Parrott, president of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, said: “Who’s getting hit, who’s bearing the cost? It’s people with low and middle incomes, people that the president and many Republican policymakers promised to serve and support in the last election.”
 
The budget bill would mean a net financial loss for the bottom 30% of American households by income – after factoring in its tax provisions and cuts in benefits. The House bill would hit the lowest-earning 10% of Americans hardest: for them, it would mean a painful $1,600 cut in income on average (a 3.9% drop), according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). At the same time, the Trump-backed bill would be a boon to wealthy households – it would mean a $12,000 increase in net income, on average, for households in the top 10%, those earning above $692,000 a year. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the top 0.1% – those with income over $3.3m – would receive tax cuts of $103,500 on average.
 
What’s more, the Trump-backed plan sharply reduces Affordable Care Act subsidies, and that will force millions of Americans to either drop coverage or pay far more for coverage. Millions of Americans will find it harder to obtain healthcare, with many forced to take on far more medical debt.

While Trump and many Republicans say the Medicaid cuts are all about reducing “waste, fraud and abuse”, Lambrew calculates that a mere 3.5% of the $1tn in healthcare cuts come from cutting waste and abuse. “What Trump has been saying is, ‘We’re not cutting Medicaid. We’re just cutting fraud.’ That’s gaslighting.” Lambrew said.
 
According to a Quinnipiac University poll, only 27% of registered voters support the GOP budget bill, while 53% oppose it. A Fox News poll found that 38% support the bill, while 59% oppose it.

The House bill’s deep cuts in food benefits will cause 7 million people, including over 2 million children, to lose food aid or have their food aid cut significantly. The Trump-supported bill also makes sharp cuts in Pell grant awards. The Center for American Progress says this means 4.4 million students from low- and moderate-income families could lose some or all of their federal grant aid.
 
Guno צְבִי said:
The House bill’s deep cuts in food benefits will cause 7 million people, including over 2 million children, to lose food aid or have their food aid cut significantly. The Trump-supported bill also makes sharp cuts in Pell grant awards. The Center for American Progress says this means 4.4 million students from low- and moderate-income families could lose some or all of their federal grant aid.
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There's 7.5 million good paying jobs in the trades looking to hire. Sounds like some of those 4.4 million students should change their education option to a trade where the employer pays 100% of their training costs. Not only that, but they'd be making a shit ton more money while getting trained than they do going to college. If later they want a degree, they can get one and have the cash to pay for it.

Why spend upwards of $100,000+ on college when you can be earning $70,000+ working a trade?
 
Project 2025 moving along nicely even though trump tried to distance himself from it.

"While Trump never publicly acknowledged Project 2025 and made any comments about the conservative initiative impacting his policies, more than a dozen changes proposed by the "big bill" aligned with the wish list published by the Heritage Foundation.

Below is a list of changes that fit with both Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" and Project 2025:

  • Health care: Trump's plan targets Medicaid as it introduces work requirements for those wanting to stay in the program while Project 2025 aims to push 33 million people enrolled in original Medicare, a public option, to switch to Medicare Advantage, a private option. Both plans look to change how Americans access public health care options.
  • Tax cuts: Trump's plan focuses on individual and business tax cuts and Project 2025 provides substantial tax cuts for wealthy households and corporations.
  • Changes to food assistance: Trump's plan introduces work requirements for Americans wanting to stay in the food assistance programs. Project 2025 proposed limiting access. Trump's plan also involves increased state responsibility for SNAP costs.
  • Abortion: Both Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" and Project 2025 align in their efforts to restrict access to abortion services, with Trump's plan prohibiting Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood and Project 2025 aiming to restrict access to medication abortion.
  • Student loans: Trump's proposal includes a tax on university endowments, while Project 2025 focuses on denying student loans based on state policies. Project 2025 aims to deny loans in states and in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants. Trump's plan also proposes an overhaul on repayment option.
www.foxla.com

Where do Trump's $5 trillion 'Big Beautiful' tax cut bill and Project 2025 align?

Despite Trump's public distancing from Project 2025, his "One Big Beautiful Bill" incorporates several elements from the initiative, including changes to health care, tax cuts, food assistance, abortion access and student loans.
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How many things do you leftists have to be wrong about.

I am still waiting for the war you predicted to happen to come true

I am still waiting for the tariffs to crash the economy the way you predicted

Don't you ever tire of being wrong?
 
christiefan915 said:
Project 2025 moving along nicely even though trump tried to distance himself from it.

"While Trump never publicly acknowledged Project 2025 and made any comments about the conservative initiative impacting his policies, more than a dozen changes proposed by the "big bill" aligned with the wish list published by the Heritage Foundation.

Below is a list of changes that fit with both Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" and Project 2025:

  • Health care: Trump's plan targets Medicaid as it introduces work requirements for those wanting to stay in the program while Project 2025 aims to push 33 million people enrolled in original Medicare, a public option, to switch to Medicare Advantage, a private option. Both plans look to change how Americans access public health care options.
  • Tax cuts: Trump's plan focuses on individual and business tax cuts and Project 2025 provides substantial tax cuts for wealthy households and corporations.
  • Changes to food assistance: Trump's plan introduces work requirements for Americans wanting to stay in the food assistance programs. Project 2025 proposed limiting access. Trump's plan also involves increased state responsibility for SNAP costs.
  • Abortion: Both Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" and Project 2025 align in their efforts to restrict access to abortion services, with Trump's plan prohibiting Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood and Project 2025 aiming to restrict access to medication abortion.
  • Student loans: Trump's proposal includes a tax on university endowments, while Project 2025 focuses on denying student loans based on state policies. Project 2025 aims to deny loans in states and in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants. Trump's plan also proposes an overhaul on repayment option.
www.foxla.com

Where do Trump's $5 trillion 'Big Beautiful' tax cut bill and Project 2025 align?

Despite Trump's public distancing from Project 2025, his "One Big Beautiful Bill" incorporates several elements from the initiative, including changes to health care, tax cuts, food assistance, abortion access and student loans.
www.foxla.com www.foxla.com
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Project 2025: The Blueprint for Christian Nationalist Regime Change​

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 is a “presidential transition project” created as a blueprint for recruitment and indoctrination should Donald J. Trump become the next president. The plan calls for establishing a government that would be imbued with “biblical principles” and run by a president who holds sweeping executive powers. The Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank and sponsor of The Republican National Committee’s convention, is directing the effort, along with hundreds of additional organizations. Despite Trump’s disavowalof Project 2025, the effort includes 140 staff members, advisors, and agency heads of the former Trump administration.

Project 2025 touts four “pillars” to accomplish its goals:

In addition to erasing the rights of women and minorities, the Mandate for Leadership:

  • Expresses a special contempt for the LGBTQ+ community (103);
  • Recognizes women primarily in their roles as wives or mothers;
  • Recommends the elimination of the Head Start childcare program (482) despite the fact that for nearly six decades the program has helped low-income children and families with nutrition, education, and high-quality, affordable day care to prepare children for school and enable low-income parents to work. Indeed, Project 2025 suggests that the new administration should “prioritize funding for home-based childcare, not universal day care” (486). It states that children who spend undefined “significant” time in day care experience “higher rates of anxiety, depression, and neglect as well as poor educational and developmental outcomes.”
  • Recommends banning abortion, ensuring that only pro-life government policy prevails, and outlaws the mailing of abortion-inducing medication (459);
  • Portrays single motherhood as destroying families (4); and
  • Identifies fatherlessness as the root of all evil, stating that fatherlessness is “one of the principal sources of American poverty, crime, mental illness, teen suicide, substance abuse, rejection of the church, and high school dropouts” (4).
A Policy Agenda for Christian Nationalists
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Project 2025: The Blueprint for Christian Nationalist Regime Change

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Project 2025: A Christo-fascist manifesto designing a theocracy​

Christian Nationalist Republicans like Speaker Mike Johnson (La.), Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito have infiltrated our legislative and judicial branches. According to the nonpartisan research firm PRRI,

Christian Nationalists operate with several core beliefs:

  1. America was founded as a white Christian nation.
  2. The founders were Christians who steeped our Constitution in the Bible.
  3. The Bible is the inerrant, infallible word of God.
  4. Because it is inerrant and infallible, the Bible is God’s perfect law and the basis for their definition of morality.
  5. Whenever a human law conflicts with God’s perfect law, it is a Christian Nationalist’s job to overrule the human law and replace it with God’s law.
  6. Many believe God cursed Black and Brown people in the story of Noah, aligning followers with white supremacists. Southern proponents of chattel slavery promoted this idea, and Southern pastors continued preaching it after the South lost the Civil War.
  7. They are indoctrinated to never compromise, making Christian Nationalists dreadful politicians. They believe everyone must follow God’s perfect law to the letter.
thefulcrum.us

Project 2025: A Christo-fascist manifesto designing a theocracy

Watkins is the best selling author of the memoir "Not Without My Father: One Woman's 444-- Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace" This is part of a series offering a nonpartisan counter to Project 2025, a conservative guideline to reforming government and policymaking during the first 180 days of a...
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Guno צְבִי said:

Project 2025: A Christo-fascist manifesto designing a theocracy​

Christian Nationalist Republicans like Speaker Mike Johnson (La.), Sen. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito have infiltrated our legislative and judicial branches. According to the nonpartisan research firm PRRI,

Christian Nationalists operate with several core beliefs:

  1. America was founded as a white Christian nation.
  2. The founders were Christians who steeped our Constitution in the Bible.
  3. The Bible is the inerrant, infallible word of God.
  4. Because it is inerrant and infallible, the Bible is God’s perfect law and the basis for their definition of morality.
  5. Whenever a human law conflicts with God’s perfect law, it is a Christian Nationalist’s job to overrule the human law and replace it with God’s law.
  6. Many believe God cursed Black and Brown people in the story of Noah, aligning followers with white supremacists. Southern proponents of chattel slavery promoted this idea, and Southern pastors continued preaching it after the South lost the Civil War.
  7. They are indoctrinated to never compromise, making Christian Nationalists dreadful politicians. They believe everyone must follow God’s perfect law to the letter.
thefulcrum.us

Project 2025: A Christo-fascist manifesto designing a theocracy

Watkins is the best selling author of the memoir "Not Without My Father: One Woman's 444-- Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace" This is part of a series offering a nonpartisan counter to Project 2025, a conservative guideline to reforming government and policymaking during the first 180 days of a...
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Most Christians know "Christian Nationalism" is not Christian.

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Guno צְבִי said:
Last November, Donald Trump made a solemn vow to all Americans: “Every citizen, I will fight for you, your family and your future every single day.” Eight months later, Trump is vigorously backing many policies that will mean pain for millions.

Trump has pushed to enact the Republican budget bill, which would make significant cuts to Medicaid, Obamacare, and food assistance, and would do the greatest damage to those Americans struggling hardest to make ends meet – the 30% of the US population that lives in households earning under $50,000 a year.


Even as Trump and Republican lawmakers are rushing to cut over $1.4tn in health and food assistance for non-affluent Americans, Trump continues to pressure Congress to extend over $3tn in tax cuts that disproportionately help the wealthy and corporations.

www.theguardian.com

‘It’s harsh. It’s mean, brutal’: Trump bill to cause most harm to America’s poorest

President embraces Robin-Hood-in-reverse policies to benefit wealthiest and hurt those earning under $50,000
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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