So, how ya’ doing since Donald Trump and the Republicans took over? How’s that electricity bill? Food prices? Affordable housing? Insurance bills? Everybody’s job safe?
Are you healthier? If you can afford it.
We are watching the willful dismantling of our health care system. Medicaid has been cut, the CDC and NIH have been seriously diminished, the US is no longer part of the World Health Organization, and biomedical research has been slashed. Vaccines have been undermined, leaving us vulnerable to pandemics as well as diseases vaccines had largely eradicated. Demonstrably false information has been spread to undercut our trust. Expect fewer hospitals and health services in rural areas, and senior care options to struggle without adequate Medicaid funding.
Are you safer? Not from severe droughts and extreme weather. Republicans will neither research climate change nor address it. Cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service have reduced our ability to forecast storms, and FEMA will no longer be an effective safety net afterwards. Environmental deregulation will diminish clean air and water protections.
How can Americans feel safe when individuals, media, law firms, universities and dissenters are being threatened, persecuted, extorted and prosecuted? Violent rhetoric has led to political violence. Americans who disagree with Trump are “the enemy within,” rather than citizens with a right to their opinion. How will they use your personal information handed to them by DOGE?
Yes, governmental protections have been radically dismantled thanks to Trump and Project 2025. Don’t worry, the rich won’t suffer.