Update for Trump Voters 1. He told you heād repeal Obamacare and replace it with something ābeautiful.ā You bought it. But he didnāt repeal and he didnāt replace. (Just as well: His plan would have knocked 22 million off health insurance, including many of you.) 2. He told you heād cut your taxes. You bought it. But tax āreformā is stalled. And if it ever moves, the only ones whose taxes will be cut are the wealthy. 3. He told you heād invest $1 billion in our nationā crumbling infrastructure. You bought it. But his infrastructure plan, which was really a giveaway to rich investors, is also stalled. 4. He said heād clean the Washington swamp. You bought it. But he's brought into his administration more billionaires, CEOs, and Wall Street moguls than in any administration in history, to make laws that will enrich their businesses, along with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who are crafting new policies for the same industries they recently worked for. 5. He said heād use his business experience to whip the White House into shape. You bought it. But he created the most chaotic, dysfunctional, back-stabbing White House in modern history, in which no one is in charge. 6. He said heād close āspecial interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors but unfair to American workers." You bought it. But he picked a Wall Street financier Stephen Schwarzman to run his strategic and policy forum, who compares closing those loopholes to Hitlerās invasion of Poland. 7. He told you heād ābring down drug pricesā by making deals with drug companies. You bought it. But now the White House says that promise is āinoperative.ā 8. He said that on Day One heād label China a ācurrency manipulator.ā You bought it. But then he met with Chinaās president and declared "China is not a currency manipulator." 9. He said he wouldnāt bomb Syria. You bought it. But then he bombed Syria. 10. He called Barack Obama āthe vacationer-in-Chiefā and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayerās dime, not when there was so much important work to be done. You bought it. But in his first 6 months he has spent more taxpayer money on vacations than Obama did in the first 3 years of his presidency. Not to mention all the money taxpayers are spending protecting his family, including his two sons who travel all over the world on Trump business. 11. He said heād force companies to keep jobs in America. You believed him. But despite their promises, Carrier, Ford, GM, and the rest are shipping jobs to Mexico and China. 12. He said heād create coal jobs. You believe him. He hasnāt. But here's what he has done: Since 1965 a federal program called the Appalachian Regional Commission has spent $23 billion helping communities in coal states fund job retraining, reclaim land, and provide desperately needed social services. A.R.C. helped cut poverty rates almost in half, double the percentage of high-school graduates, and reduce infant mortality by two-thirds. Trumpās first proposed budget eliminates A.R.C.
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