Commentary: Trump voters feel the economic blow of his policies
Veterans are getting laid off from federal jobs. Midwest Farmers can't tap promised government funding. Medicaid enrollees in red states are worrying about losing health coverage. The looming threat of tariffs would also hit GOP-voting districts hard if President Donald Trump follows through on those.
That’s the thing about big, across-the-board policy swipes: They spare no one.
To be sure, what the GOP and Trump are doing is no secret, and many of these efforts have hurt Democratic voters too. But you have to wonder if Trump supporters are surprised to find themselves in the president’s crosshairs.
Trump campaigned on the tariffs now threatening the country's economy. He also wanted to gut the federal workforce, often referring to it as the "deep state." And the GOP has longed to cut down the size of the US government. Now it's joined by billionaire Elon Musk, who before the election vowed to slash $2 trillion from the federal budget and admitted those efforts would cause "temporary hardship."
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