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Why Trump's word salad answer on child care policy matters
Donald Trump and JD Vance were asked in separate events about child care policy. Vance’s answer was ridiculous. Trump’s was worse.
Link to tweet
Why Trump's word salad on child care matters:
- He still can't speak coherently about public policy
- Evidence of deterioration
- He doesn't understand the basics of his own tariffs plan
No wonder the White House called him out.
- He still can't speak coherently about public policy
- Evidence of deterioration
- He doesn't understand the basics of his own tariffs plan
No wonder the White House called him out.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-world-salad-answer-child-care-policy-matters-rcna169909
Has it not occurred to the Ohio senator that if parents had access to free familial labor, they’d already be taking advantage of that? Watching the exchange, I found myself wondering how many Americans saw this and thought, “My relatives can help watch the kids? Why didn’t I think of that? Thank goodness for these valuable insights from JD Vance!”
But it was a day later when Vance’s running mate faced the same question and responded with an even less coherent answer. As a HuffPost report summarized:
This was one of those things that people really have to see to fully appreciate.
.....But appearing on MSNBC the morning after the GOP candidate’s comments, White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates raised an underappreciated point: “If you have any idea what the hell that answer means, you’re a better detective than I am, because these tariffs that he wants to apply across the board would amount to a $4,000 tax increase on working families. And that is something that authorities across the private sector are warning would be devastating for our economy and would depress economic growth.”
To the extent that Trump said any understandable words in his response, the Republican seemed to suggest that he’ll impose tariffs on trading partners, which he believes will generate money that he can then apply to child care costs. But that’s bonkers: Not only will the tariffs fail to create some giant pool of money for Trump to draw from, but those same tariffs would raise costs for the families looking for relief.
The GOP candidate, in other words, has the entire policy dynamic backwards.
But it was a day later when Vance’s running mate faced the same question and responded with an even less coherent answer. As a HuffPost report summarized:
Donald Trump on Thursday got a question about what he would do as president to make child care more affordable and accessible. The answer he gave might charitably be described as a rambling non sequitur, or less charitably as policy gibberish.
This was one of those things that people really have to see to fully appreciate.
Link to tweet
.....But appearing on MSNBC the morning after the GOP candidate’s comments, White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates raised an underappreciated point: “If you have any idea what the hell that answer means, you’re a better detective than I am, because these tariffs that he wants to apply across the board would amount to a $4,000 tax increase on working families. And that is something that authorities across the private sector are warning would be devastating for our economy and would depress economic growth.”
Link to tweet
To the extent that Trump said any understandable words in his response, the Republican seemed to suggest that he’ll impose tariffs on trading partners, which he believes will generate money that he can then apply to child care costs. But that’s bonkers: Not only will the tariffs fail to create some giant pool of money for Trump to draw from, but those same tariffs would raise costs for the families looking for relief.
The GOP candidate, in other words, has the entire policy dynamic backwards.