It’s Official: The GOP Is Not A Working-Class Party
HuffPost
The outcome of this bill will be a net negative for everyone except the rich — and it’s time to throw Donald Trump’s populist working-class schtick in the trash.
The passage of President Donald Trump’s massive budget bill that slashes taxes for the rich, raises them for the poor and cuts health care for millions should put to rest long-running commentary that Trump is remaking the Republican Party into a working-class party.
This is the same old agenda championed by Republicans for decades. Every GOP presidential administration has successfully enacted regressive tax cuts for the wealthiest. Trump has done that again, only this time, taxes will also go up for the poorest.
What’s different this time? Republicans finally took health care away from millions of Americans after trying and failing numerous times over the years. President Bill Clinton vetoed Newt Gingrich’s attempts to cut Medicaid in 1995. Trump just signed huge Medicaid cuts into law. Efforts to repeal or gut the Affordable Care Act failed repeatedly, until now.
This is not an agenda aimed at helping the poor, working-class people, or the middle class. It is geared toward enriching the already rich while punishing everyone else.
None of the supposed populist agenda items that were bandied about in public came to fruition. Cuts to Medicaid only increased after the Senate took up the bill, which Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said he would oppose and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon openly criticized. Hawley voted for the bill. The bill did not increase tax rates for the highest earners, as numerous articles suggested Trump supported. Instead, it cut those tax rates.
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