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'They'll believe it': Analyst details 'decades-long Republican trick' of robbing constituents
The New Republic’s ‘Daily Blast’ with Greg Sargent touched on the uncomfortable truths some Republican Senators are admitting about President Donald Trump’s massive budget measure.
Lawmakers like Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Josh Hawley (Ohio) are nervous that 10 million mostly red state residents could lose access to Medicaid under the Trump’s bill, which would also cut food stamps while delivering a huge tax cut for the rich and redistribute resources upward, with the top 10 percent of households gaining and the bottom 10 percent losing
Paul Waldman, co-author of ‘White Rural Rage’ pointed out that the Republican Party appears to be the party of the white working class, but only in terms of which constituents support them. More educated voters with college degrees are likely to vote for Democrats, while mostly white voters without college degrees are much more likely to vote Republicans.
“But one of the implications of that is that people more likely to vote for Trump are much more reliant on government services, both as individuals and in the areas they live,” Waldman told Sargent. “And you layer on top of that a lot of the specific things [Republicans] are going after, like green energy subsidies. About 80 percent of the manufacturing subsidies that the Biden administration put in goes to Republican districts. … They’re actually going to hurt their own constituents and the people who voted for Trump most.”
Lawmakers like Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Josh Hawley (Ohio) are nervous that 10 million mostly red state residents could lose access to Medicaid under the Trump’s bill, which would also cut food stamps while delivering a huge tax cut for the rich and redistribute resources upward, with the top 10 percent of households gaining and the bottom 10 percent losing
Paul Waldman, co-author of ‘White Rural Rage’ pointed out that the Republican Party appears to be the party of the white working class, but only in terms of which constituents support them. More educated voters with college degrees are likely to vote for Democrats, while mostly white voters without college degrees are much more likely to vote Republicans.
“But one of the implications of that is that people more likely to vote for Trump are much more reliant on government services, both as individuals and in the areas they live,” Waldman told Sargent. “And you layer on top of that a lot of the specific things [Republicans] are going after, like green energy subsidies. About 80 percent of the manufacturing subsidies that the Biden administration put in goes to Republican districts. … They’re actually going to hurt their own constituents and the people who voted for Trump most.”
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