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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump pulled the plug on Biden's funds for Appalachia. FAFO
We are in the midst of the longest, saddest, most excruciating and unsatisfying I TOLD YOU SO in the history of the world.
For a brief moment, community organizers in Appalachia thought they were witnessing a once-in-a-generation lifeline. Billions of dollars from the Biden administration had been earmarked in 2022 to help former coal towns rebuild their economies, create new jobs and prepare for flooding, blackouts and other mounting environmental risks. But on his first day back in office, Donald Trump eliminated nearly all of those clean-energy and environmental programs, dismissing them as woke liberal scams a decision now hitting hardest in the same deep-red counties that delivered him some of his biggest margins.
https://wtfdetective.blog/trump-pulled-the-plug-on-bidens-funds-for-appalachia-and-the-same-maga-towns-he-gutted-are-freaking-out/
tazcat
(194 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(12,415 posts)yet many of those interviewed by the Guardian blame Washington politics generally rather than Trump.
I dont think the president knew. Im one of his biggest supporters, but were dealing with the ills of industry here, and weve got to be able to clean this up so our people in these hollers can have a quality of life.
Trump won 83% of the vote in Russell county in 2024 while Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican candidate for governor, secured 81% last month.
Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said: President Trump cares about our miners more than any other president in modern history which is why he has implemented his energy dominance agenda to protect their jobs and revive the mining industry
we can maintain the safety of miners while simultaneously rolling back Joe Bidens Green New Scam regulations that were killing their jobs.
Cha
(316,179 posts)That's going to change Exactly Nothing for them.
They'd rather remain Stupid then Learn.
Norrrm
(3,729 posts)How many coal jobs did Trump bring back?
progressoid
(52,434 posts)I wonder if the "found out" part of FAFO will sink in.
Do they truly understand how this happened to them? I mean, they voted for Trump so...

You got what you voted for.
Cha
(316,179 posts)"We Told You SOs"... Now do you believe Us and know Traitor is a GD Psychotic LIAR?
Pototan
(2,939 posts)I can just hear them now, "I thought only the Liberals would suffer."
Coventina
(29,043 posts)Fuckers
no_hypocrisy
(53,984 posts)Orrex
(66,523 posts)jfz9580m
(16,360 posts)To people who told me Musk and those other overrated and parasitic technofascists were liberals.
In case you somehow missed it, this from Trumps inauguration (God that was such a shitty day. That was the last time I went jogging outside this year, until I restarted today):

Or that neoliberalism was an awesome idea!
Vinca
(53,129 posts)you fucking moron.
ananda
(34,190 posts)when you get something good from a Democrat,
and never got anything good from a Republican,
you'd still vote against your own best interests...
and then, when the Republicans do what they've
always done -- take from the poor and give to
the rich...
why you'd complain abut what you voted for.
I know we already know the answer, but it
still bothers me.
Martin Eden
(15,256 posts)I feel bad for the children of West Virginia, and those who did NOT vote for Trump.