‘Things better change’: Arizona voters express reservations about Trump’s first 100 days

The Special Eats Café is a work in progress: new gas pipes just installed, the walls ready for a fresh coat of paint, and the kitchen racks stacked with pots and pans for the work ahead.

The Special Eats Café is a work in progress: new gas pipes just installed, the walls ready for a fresh coat of paint, and the kitchen racks stacked with pots and pans for the work ahead. It is a crucial next chapter for Tamara Varga and her passion project: helping people with special needs, including her two sons. The project includes two food trucks, a sweets shop and soon the restaurant, staffed by workers with autism, Down syndrome and other challenges. The restaurant has 50 workers now; Varga hopes there will be more as the business expands and her restaurant not only serves food but offers kitchen training. “It is a lot of work,” Varga said as she gave a kitchen tour. But also, this: “It is my passion. And it is my calling. This what I am supposed to be doing, and it fulfills my life, and it blesses me.” Varga is a devout Christian and a lifelong Republican, a Trump supporter who participated in CNN’s “All Over the Map” project during the 2024 presidential campaign. We revisited with her and others in our Arizona group to get their assessment of the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s new term. Most of the takeaways were not good news for the White House: Varga still counts herself as a Trump supporter at 100 days. But her questions about what is happening in Washington are potentially troubling for the White House and the GOP Congress. “I’m feeling good about a lot of the promises that he made on the campaign, but I am worried about a few things as well,” Varga said in an interview at the Tucson restaurant site. “I’m worried about Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security. He did say that he was not going to cut them. That he was just going to find waste and I really hope that he sticks to that.”