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FightFight's JournalTrump's economic plans would worsen inflation, experts say
Source: apnews
65 percent of economists said they saw Trump’s policies adding more to the nation’s deficits compared to Harris’s policy agenda. The figure marks a 14 point jump from the Journal’s July survey.
The survey’s results come not long after the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated the plans proposed by both candidates could increase the national debt by trillions of dollars through 2035. However, the report found that Trump’s tax and spending plans could add twice as much to the national debt as those brought by Harris.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-inflation-tariffs-taxes-immigration-federal-reserve-a18de763fcc01557258c7f33cab375ed
**Want A Better Economy? History Says Vote Democrat**
1. Personal disposable income has grown nearly 6 times more under Democratic presidents
2. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown 7 times more under Democratic presidents
3. Corporate profits have grown over 16% more per year under Democratic presidents (they actually declined under Republicans by an average of 4.53%/year)
Average annual compound return on the stock market has been 18 times greater under Democratic presidents (If you invested $100k for 40 years of Republican administrations you had $126k at the end, if if you invested $100k for 40 years of Democrat administrations you had $3.9M at the end)
4. Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents
5. The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican, laissez faire administrations
**Why Are Republican Presidents So Bad for the Economy?**
G.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen faster under Democrats for nearly the past century. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html
**U.S. Jobs, Income, GDP Growth 'Startlingly' Higher Under Democratic Presidents** https://www.newsweek.com/us-jobs-income-gdp-growth-startlingly-higher-under-democratic-presidents-analysis-1566313
**Over the last 6 decades--60 years or so, history has tended to favor Democratic presidents in terms of economic performance** https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/10/28/which-presidents-have-been-best-for-the-economy
**During the final 3 years of Barack Obama's presidency 2014. 2015 . 2016 , the number of jobs added was 1.5 million greater than the number added during Trump's first 3 years in office 2017 2018 2019** https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-created-more-jobs-trump
**Trump inherited a booming economy — and handed Biden a nation 'in shambles'** https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-inherited-booming-economy-handed-biden-nation-shambles-n1255033
**Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover** https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-leave-office-worst-jobs-030044152.html
Trump will be first president since WWII to lose jobs during tenure. The U.S. lost 140,000 jobs in December 2020 in the final jobs report of Trump’s presidency. This means the nation has about 3 million fewer jobs than it did 4 years ago UNDER THE BLACK GUY --OBAMA, meaning Trump will be the first president to lose jobs over his term since employment data was collected in this way. NBC News Now correspondent Simone Boyce explains how it all unfolded.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/trump-will-be-first-president-since-wwii-to-lose-jobs-during-tenure-
September 2022 -- Trump's Plot to Send Rapists and Killers To 'Destabilize' Liberal Cities--HE HATES AMERICA
Inside Trump’s Plot to Send Rapists and Killers To ‘Destabilize’ Liberal Cities
Years before Ron DeSantis’ Martha’s Vineyard stunt, the then-president asked his team to take migrants suspected of violence and bus them to blue states and metropolitan area https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-desantis-immigration-marthas-vineyard-sanctuary-cities-1234599500/
REMINDER
Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy https://www.brookings.edu/articles/biden-voting-counties-equal-70-of-americas-economy-what-does-this-mean-for-the-nations-political-economic-divide/
Trump’s tariff plans would be disastrous for America and the world-You may think his worst ideas won’t get far. Sadly, on trade he has been singularly influential https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/02/donald-trumps-tariff-plans-would-inflict-grievous-damage-on-america-and-the-world
TRUMP WILL BE LOOKING TO DESTROY THE ENGINE OF THE ECONOMY WITH CRIMINAL MIGRANTS AND RAPITS, AND CRUSH THE FARMS AND RURAL AREAS WITH HAS MASSIVE TARIFFS--HOW DARK
Kamala Harris Rolls Out National Marijuana Legalization Plan, Pledging To Make It 'The Law Of The Land'
Source: marijuanamoment
Vice President Kamala Harris is pledging to federally legalize marijuana, ensuring that access to cannabis is “the law of the land.”
If elected, she will “break down unjust legal barriers that hold Black men and other Americans back by legalizing marijuana nationally, working with Congress to ensure that the safe cultivation, distribution, and possession of recreational marijuana is the law of the land,” the Harris campaign said on Monday.
Read more: https://www.marijuanamoment.net/kamala-harris-rolls-out-marijuana-legalization-plan-pledging-to-make-it-the-law-of-the-land/
1. VP Harris' most successful program as district attorney, “Back on Track,” allowed first-time drug offenders, including drug dealers, to get a high school diploma and a job instead of prison time. Adams, Harris’s previous spokesperson, noted that the program started in 2005, “when most prosecutors were using a ‘tough on crime’ approach.”
2. VP Harris also introduced her own bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, and voted to legalize hemp https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/23/20703691/kamala-harris-marijuana-decriminalization
3. Biden pardons thousands convicted of marijuana charges on federal lands and in Washington https://apnews.com/article/biden-marijuana-pardons-clemency-02abde991a05ff7dfa29bfc3c74e9d64
JD Vance's mom got health coverage under Trump -- by using Obamacare
Source: washingtonpost
The vice-presidential nominee’s story about family members’ new health coverage illustrates how Republicans inherited — and benefited — from the current system.---But to many health policy experts, Vance’s story reveals something else: the benefits of “Obamacare,” even to its critics, and the audacity of Trump’s attempts to take credit for the work of President Barack Obama and Democrats, who crafted and defended the Affordable Care Act at great political cost. After Democrats enacted the law in 2010, Republicans spent the next seven years vowing to overturn it, culminating in a Trump-led repeal effort that fell one vote short.
“If any Vance family members transitioned to the marketplace because they earned out of Medicaid, they should be grateful that Trump and Republicans in Congress failed to repeal and replace the marketplace with an alternative that would have provided far less affordable coverage,” Andrew Sprung, an independent health analyst who has been tracking Vance’s policy proposals, wrote in an email.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/10/12/jd-vance-mother-health-insurance-obamacare-aca/
**A few of the ways the Republican Party sabotaged Obamacare -Trump and Congressional Republicans have spent years working to undermine the ACA**
1. the ACA’s Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans, or CO-OPs. Early drafts of the ACA called for $10 billion in federal grants for the CO-OP program. But insurance lobbyists and conservative lawmakers insisted on $6 billion in loans instead of $10 billion in grants, restrictions limiting CO-OPs to the individual and small-group market (and not the more stable and profitable large-group market)
2. Day One legal challenges--On March 23, 2010, the same day the ACA was signed into law, Republican attorneys general from 14 states began the process of challenging the ACA’s individual mandate via the courts
3. Refusal to take the ACA’s Medicaid expansion funding--The ACA scheduled Medicaid expansion to take effect at the beginning of 2014. But at that point, half the states had opted against expansion, despite the fact that the federal government paid the full cost of expansion for the first 3 years
4. Obstruction of enrollment efforts---January 2014, laws had been passed in 17 Republican states that restricted navigators’ ability to help residents understand and enroll in the new plans.
5. Republican Efforts to invalidate premium subsidies--coverage would not be considered affordable without the premium subsidies
6. Republicans Undermined ACA’s risk corridors in late 2014, Republican lawmakers, led by Senator Marco Rubio, added language to a must-pass budget bill (Cromnibus) that retroactively made the risk corridors program budget neutral. Coop insurers were driven out of the market place
7. Republicans efforts to repeal the ACA in 2017 (with a successful repeal of the individual mandate penalty)
8. Republican party refusal to work on bipartisan fixes
9. **Top Republican Brags About His Party’s Sabotage Of Obamacare**--Well, it’s 2017, and the second most powerful Republican in the U.S. Senate just crowed about how he and his colleagues have wrecked part of the Affordable Care Act, undermining a program that helps millions to get insurance. The Republican is John Cornyn, from Texas, who is the Senate Majority Whip. He was talking about a provision of the GOP tax cut bill that eliminates the individual mandate, which imposes a financial penalty upon people who do not get health insurance. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-sabotage-healthcare_n_5a3a8adbe4b06d1621b1187f
10. The Trump Administration Announced New Rules Further Dismantling Obamacare
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/trump-administration-rules-obamacare
11. Trump administration won't reopen Obamacare enrollment for uninsured as coronavirus spreadshttps://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/politics/affordable-care-act-obamacare-open-enrollment-trump/index.html
12. Insurers Turn To Congress After Trump Refuses To Open Obamacare Market https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/04/09/insurers-turn-to-congress-after-trump-refuses-to-open-obamacare-market/#2a1bd3c16b35
13. MAY 7, 2020 Trump Still Wants to Kill Obamacare, Pandemic Be Damned
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-still-wants-to-kill-obamacare-coronavirus-aca
14. Trump's pick for federal court under fire for calling Obamacare ruling 'indefensible'--Justin Walker, a 37-year-old protege of the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and the supreme court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said he would have an open mind on the Obama-era health care law if it came before him as a district or appeals court judge. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/06/justin-walker-judge-confirmed-too-inexperienced
**Republicans**
1. Republicans have voted at least 70 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the protections it guarantees for people with pre-existing medical conditions--Republicans hoped voters would forget they tried to kill Obamacare
2. Republicans in the House and Senate have just recently proposed hundreds of billions of cuts to the Medicare and Medicaid programs
3. Trump tried to throw millions of working-poor people off of Medicaid, then, once that failed, deliberately engineered a spike in health-insurance premiums, out of sheer spite.
4. Trump Proposed a rule allowing companies with less than 250 workers to cease reporting workplace injuries and illness statistics to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) — and removed a list of Americans killed in workplace accidents from OSHA’s home page.
5. The Trump administration issued a rule last year that allowed short-term plans to last 364 days and to be renewable for three years. These plans DO NOT COVER PRE-EXISTING CONDTIONS AND IN A NUTSHELL ARE THE SAME PLANS FROM 11-12 YEARS AGO--OBAMA LIMITED AMERICAN'S EXPOSURE TO THESE FRAUDLENT POLICIES-- THESE POLICIES OFTEN REFUSED COVERAGE AND HELPED SEND MILLIONS INTO BANKRUPTCY--**A SCAM AT BEST**
6. The republican party slashed Funds to facilitate HealthCare.gov sign-ups--in a nutshell, they are no longer letting the public know the time period open enrollment for heatlhcare sidning up--it just ended 13 days ago, in case anyone didnt know that
7. Trump appointed one Supreme Court justice who had ruled that a trucker could be justly fired for abandoning his broken-down vehicle, instead of honoring his contractual obligation to freeze to death with his cargo, and nominated another who’d found that San Diego SeaWorld could not be held liable in the death of an employee who was killed by a killer whale. (The former pick ended up producing a landmark decision that gutted funding for public-sector unions, in defiance of decades-old precedent.)
**Democrats**
1. Democrats in congress have passed bills to reduce prescription drug prices
2. Democrats have passed bills to protect preexisting conditions, and condemned the Trump administration’s legal battle to strike down the ACA in the courts
3. Democrats are fighting for universal coverage of some sort or medicare for all
4. Democrats promised to defend Medicaid expansion--A New Study Found that 15,000 People Died Because Their State Didn’t Expand Medicaid--**15,000 Americans Died So Republican Governors Could Stick It to Obama** https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28472403/15000-americans-died-medicaid-expansion-obamacare/
**Democrats want their party to make bold healthcare reform its top priority**
Here are a list of related heatlhcare bills passed by democrats that Republicans and Trump are refusing to bring to the floor of the senate
. House Resolution 259 — Medicaid Extenders Act of 2019
. H.R. 271 — Condemning the Trump Administration’s Legal Campaign to Take Away Americans’ Health Care
. H.R. 986 — Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act of 2019
.H.R. 987 — Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act
.H.R. 1520, the Purple Book Continuity Act (bill aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs)
.H.R. 1503, the Orange Book Transparency Act of 2019 (bill aimed at lowering the cost of prescrition drugs
Trump's Sexual Allegations--- What kind of a religion worships a rapist?
**VIDEO-Trump told 14-year-old girl he'd be dating her soon** https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/oct/13/trump-makes-inappropriate-remarks-about-10-year-old-girl-video
**Alva Johonson**, a former Trump campaign staffer, said she had to avoid a kiss from Mr Trump while on a trip to Florida in August of 2016. The White House has denied this most recent accusation, as have some members of the Trump team who say they were present.
**E. Jean Carroll** accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room the mid-1990s.
"The moment the dressing-room door closed, he lunged at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips, He unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I'm not certain — inside me."
**Juliet Huddy**, Former Fox News anchor, said on the "Mornin!!! With Bill Schulz" podcast in December 2017 that Trump kissed her on the lips without her consent after a meeting in Trump Tower in Manhattan in 2005 or 2006.
**Rachel Crooks** told the New York Times in October 2016 that Trump kissed her on the mouth without her consent when she introduced herself him in 2005 Trump Tower in Manhattan, where she worked as a receptionist.
She told the Times that she and Trump shook hands and then he kissed her "directly on the mouth."
**Jessica Leeds**, a former traveling salesperson, alleged that Mr Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt while on a first-class flight in the 1980s. Ms Leeds was in her late 30s at the time.
**Victoria Hughes**, A former Miss New Mexico, said Trump first introduced himself to the teenage contestants when he unexpectedly walked into their dressing room."It was certainly the most inappropriate time to meet us all for the first time"
**Ivana Trump**, Mr Trump’s first wife, once used the word “rape” to describe an encounter with him. The accusation was made in a 1993 book following a divorce settlement between the two. She has since softened her language, saying that she didn’t mean the word in a “literal or criminal sense”.
**Jill Harth**, a former business partner of Mr Trump’s, said that Mr Trump forcibly kissed her on the lips, groped her breasts, and grabbed her genitals in what she described in a 1997 as an “attempted rape”. The encounter allegedly occurred at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, in one of his children’s bedroom. She also says that Mr Trump groped her under the table at a dinner with colleagues at the Plaza Hotel.
**Kristen Anderson** alleged that Mr Trump put his hand up her skirt and touched her genitals over her underwear at the China Club in Manhattan at some point in the early 1990s when she was in her early 20s. Ms Anderson was an aspiring model at the time.
**Lisa Boyne** accused Mr Trump of insisting that female models walk across a table at a New York restaurant in 1996, and then remarking on their underwear and genitalia. She was 25 at the time.
**Temple Taggart**, a former Miss Utah, alleged that Mr Trump forcibly kissed her on the mouth on two different occasions. The first incident was the first time that they met. The incidents occurred at the 1997 Miss USA pageant event, and in Trump Tower.
**Mariah Billado**, a former Miss Vermont Teen USA, has alleged that says that Mr Trump walked into a dressing room unannounced in 1997. She said that there were several teen beauty queens aged between 15 and 19 in the room naked at the time.
**Karena Virginia** alleged that Mr Trump grabbed her arm and touched her breast while she was waiting for a car after the US Open.
**Bridget Sullivan**, a former Miss New Hampshire, alleged that Mr Trump walked into the Miss USA pageant dressing room in 2000 while contestants were naked. She was 19 at the time.
**Tasha Dixon**, a former Miss Arizona, alleged that Mr Trump entered dressing rooms at the Miss USA pageant in 2001 while contestants were “half-naked”.
**Melinda Macgillivray** alleged that Mr Trump grabbed her buttock in a pavilion behind the main house of his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2003. They were in the middle of a group of people, she said, and it was during a concert performed by Ray Charles.
**Jennifer Murphy** said that Mr Trump forcibly kissed her after a job interview in 2005. She was 26 at the time.
**Rachel Cooks** alleged that Mr Trump kissed her forcibly on the lips outside the elevator in Trump Tower in 2005. She was 22 at the time.
**Natasha Stoynof**f alleged that Mr Trump pushed her against a wall and forcibly kissed her in a closed-door room in his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2005. Ms Stoynoff, a writer for PEOPLE magazine, was there to interview Mr Trump.
**Ninni Laaksonen** alleged that Mr Trump grabbed her buttocks while taking photos outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, and before Mr Trump appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. Ms Laaksonen was 20 at the time, in 2006.
**Jessica Drake** alleged that Mr Trump forcibly kissed her and two female friends in 2006, when she was 32. When she pushed him away, she said that he asked her: “How much?”
**Samantha Holvey**, a former Miss North Carolina, alleged that Mr Trump treated women like “meat” and would barge into dressing rooms to inspect women. She said the incidents occurred in 2006, when she was 20.
**Summer Zervos** alleged that Mr Trump grabbed her by her shoulders and forcibly kissed her, and groped her breasts, while she was a contestant on The Apprentice in 2007. She said the incidents took place at Trump Tower in New York, and at a hotel in Los Angeles.
**Cassandra Searles**, a former Miss Washington, said that Mr Trump grabbed her buttocks repeatedly in 2013 during the Miss USA pageant in 2013. She said that he also invited her to his hotel room.
**Karen Johnson**, who said Mr Trump pulled her into a tapestry by her crotch at a New Year's Eve party in the early 2000s.
**The 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct**
https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12
**Trump had an affair with Stormy Daniels --a porn star, months after the birth of his 5 child--Barron-- from his 3rd wife**--He paid said porn star over 100 Grand to keep quiet--in what amounted to an illegal scheme that sent his personal attorney to jail https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-melania-stormy-daniels-affairs-marriages-timeline-2018-3
**Playboy model Karen McDougal allegedly started an affair with Trump even closer to the birth of Barron, in June 2006** https://www.businessinsider.com/new-yorker-claims-trump-used-secret-meet-ups-payoffs-to-hush-affairs-2018-2
**Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partied together.--Jeffrey Epstein brought an 'underage-looking' girl on board Donald Trump's plane as they flew from NYC to Florida in March of 2000** https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7281433/Jeffrey-Epstein-took-young-girl-board-Donald-Trumps-plane-2000.
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**How one of Epstein's victim was said to be recruited from Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, and all the other connections between the accused sex trafficker and pedophile and Trump**
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-and-trump-mar-a-lago-resort-connectionstml
**2018- Trump's endorsement of alleged Child sexual molester Alabama Republican Roy Moore** https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/trump-backs-accused-child-molester-roy-moore-senate-171204184857551.html
**When Trump was watching his 16-year-old daughter Ivanka host the 1997 Miss Teen USA** pageant, he turned to the then-Miss Universe and asked
*“Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?”** https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-creepiest-most-unsettling-comments-a-roundup-a7353876.html
**Trump: If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, I'd be dating her**
**He is A Self Confessed Sexual Predator** https://www.vox.com/2016/10/7/13205842/trump-secret-recording-women?__c=1
**2 top white house staffers brutally beat or physically harmed their ex-wives, Trump weighed in by complaining "lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation."Trump's History of Defending Men Accused of Hurting Women** https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/us/trump-sexual-misconduct.html
**Trump defends Bill O'Reilly of then Fox News: 'I don't think Bill did anything wrong'**https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/05/media/donald-trump-defends-bill-oreilly/
**Bill O’Reilly’s Sexual Harassment Settlements Are Even Uglier Than We Thought**
https://www.vogue.com/article/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-settlement-news
**Trump Defends Roger Ailes Once Ceo of Fox News, Against Sexual Harassment Accusations: "He's a Very Good Person"** https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-defends-roger-ailes-913993
**Here's a list of all the Bill O'Reilly of then Fox News and Roger Ailes of then Fox News also-- accusers**https://www.axios.com/heres-a-list-of-all-the-oreillyailes-accusers-1513301331-acae2e89-ff4a-40d4-a930-fe496fc466bc.html
**Trump & his group of alleged wife-beaters** https://thedailybanter.com/2018/02/07/trump-supports-rob-porter-wife-beater/ https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-trump-alleged-wife-beater-underlings-cut-cloth-article-1.2974462
**Ex-Kentucky Trump campaign official charged with child sex trafficking** https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trafficking-lawsuit/ex-trump-campaign-official-charged-with-human-trafficking-idUSKBN17Y299
**Trump's Oklahoma campaign chair to plead guilty to child sex trafficking** https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-s-oklahoma-campaign-chair-plead-guilt-child-sex-trafficking-n822461
Trump canceled a federal grant that helped rightwing extremists move away from radical ideas--THROWING KEROSENE
HOW TRUMP TOSSED KEROSENE ON RACIAL HATE AND DIVISION IN AMERICA
1. **Trump singled out funding for historically black colleges as potentially unconstitutional** https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/05/trump-historically-black-colleges-financing-unconstitutional-238061
2. **Trump Wanted to Make Mortgages More Expensive for Minorities of all colors** https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/donald-trump-fannie-mae-freddie-mac
3. **The most dramatic drop in black unemployment first came under Obama **, when it fell from a recession high of 16.8 percent in March 2010 to 7.8 percent in January 2017 --BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT ROSE UNDER TRUMP--it again fell significnatly under Biden-Harris https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27------------------ Fact check: Biden, not Trump, has the record lows for Black unemployment and poverty
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/16/politics/fact-check-trump-biden-black-unemployment-poverty/index.html
4. **African Americans also had higher income prior to the Trump administration. A black household earned median income of $40,258 in 2017, the latest data available. That’s below a 2000 peak of $42,348, according to the Census Bureau** https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27
5. Trump’s tax law disproportionately hurt African Americans.-African Americans were disproportionately left out from Trump’s tax cut. African American households received only 5% of the benefits from Trump’s tax law, despite making up about 13% of U.S. households. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/how-trumps-tax-cuts-favor-whites-over-minorities/
6. The Trump administration decided to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which was designed to reduce pollution and improve public health. This action directly affects people of color, since, according to the EPA, they are more likely to live near pollution-emitting power plants, making them more susceptible to dangerous health disorders such as asthma and cardiovascular disease.
7. Trump's Department of Interior recently reversed an Obama-era strategic plan to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in its parks hiring https://www.outsideonline.com/2256526/doi-wants-preserve-inequality-our-parks
8. Jeff Sessions overturned so-called smart on crime approaches to criminal justice by directing prosecutors to pursue the harshest drug sentences possible, without consideration of an individual’s role in a drug conspiracy. This reversal will contribute to the overincarceration of African Americans, who remain more than twice as likely to be arrested for drug possession than whites http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HolderMandatoryMinimumsMemo.pdf
9. Attorney General Sessions reversed a DOJ plan to reduce its use of private prisons, which profit from the war on drugs and house a greater share of people of color than public prisons.
10. Trump signed a bill taking away the right for people to take financial companies to court, a step toward weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects individuals—especially people of color—from wealth-stripping financial products and fights against discrimination in the financial industry.
11. **Trump administration wanted to eliminate the U.S. Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), which provides business consulting services to people of color who wish to start or expand their own businesses**
12. Trump's Education Department is reportedly considering scrapping Obama-era federal guidance designed to ensure school discipline policies do not discriminate against students of color
13. Trump wanted to freeze Pell Grant awards—which help nearly two-thirds of African American students and half of Latino students pay for college
14. In response to white nationalists rampaging through Charlottesville, Virginia and ultimately murdering one counter protester, President Trump responded by defending the white nationalists and blamed “many sides” for the violence
15. Trump rescinded a federal grant designed to help right-wing extremists move away from radical hateful racist ideas
16. Trump supports obamacare erepeal there is no replacement option
17. Trump attacked African American professional athletes for protesting systemic racism
18. The Trump Campaign paid For A Recount In Wisconsin — But Only In Areas With Large Black Populations--id Trump scream about the election results https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/trump-wisconsin-recount-black-voters
19.The right to vote is the most fundamental right of democracy in the United States. But under the Trump administration, countless Americans of color are faced increased barriers to the voting booth. In 2017, 2018 and 2020
20. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division is charged with protecting Americans from discrimination based on race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status, and national origin. Trump tried to undercut the division’s mission, by proposing to eliminate 121 of its staff positions.
21. More than 90 percent of President Trump’s nominees for federal judgeships are white, despite the fact that there were more qualified minorities, His judicial nominees, many of whom used hateful rhetoric and supported voter suppression laws, undermine the idea of representative democracy—that government should look like the people it serves
22. Trump asked Congress to cut funding from the Legal Services Corporation, a nonprofit that supports legal aid programs across the United States and whose client demographic is 4 percent African American and 17.9 percent Hispanic.
23. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Environmental Justice protects low-income communities and communities of color from environmental hazards such as toxic waste and air pollution. The Trump administration wanted to eliminate the entire office, jeopardizing the health and safety of countless Americans.
24. Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico, putting 3.4 million American lives at risk. In response, Trump stated that Puerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them”; threatened to abandon the recovery effort; and cast doubt on long-term financial support. He just threw rolls of paper towels at folks
25. The Trump administration decided to repeal the Clean Power Plan, which was designed to reduce pollution and improve public health. This action directly affected people of color, since, according to the EPA, they are more likely to live near pollution-emitting power plants, making them more susceptible to dangerous health disorders such as asthma and cardiovascular disease.
26. Despite widespread and sustained protests, the Trump administration approved the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a controversial project that puts the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe at risk.
26. Only 1 in 5 National Park Service employees and visitors to U.S. national parks are Americans of color. However, Trump's U.S. Department of Interior recently reversed an Obama-era strategic plan to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in its parks.
27. The Bears Ears National Monument contains countless Native American ceremonial sites, historical artifacts and dwellings, and other cultural resources. The Trump administration put this cultural area at risk of destruction and looting by shrinking the protected land by 85 percent to allow for commercial activities, including potential mining and oil and gas development.
28. Trump reversed an Obama-era executive order that placed commonsense training and supervision requirements on local law enforcement when they apply to obtain surplus weapons and equipment from federal agencies such as the U.S. departments of Defense and Justice.
29. Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned smart on crime approaches to criminal justice by directing prosecutors to pursue the harshest drug sentences possible, without consideration of an individual’s role in a drug conspiracy. This reversal will contribute to the overincarceration of African Americans, who remain more than twice as likely to be arrested for drug possession than whites.
30. Trump's Attorney General Sessions directed the DOJ to re-examine existing “consent decrees,” which are court-supervised agreements made between DOJ and local governments to address systemic racism and abuse of power in their police departments, as well as build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. This move was immediately followed by an attempt to derail an agreement to overhaul Baltimore, Maryland’s, police department and signals an end to federal oversight of local law enforcement.
31.Trump's Attorney General Sessions rolled back a DOJ program providing technical assistance to local law enforcement agencies that wanted to build trust with local communities. This voluntary program was popular among police chiefs nationwide, and its changes undermine public safety.
32. Trump's Attorney General Sessions reversed a DOJ plan to reduce its use of private prisons, which profit from the war on drugs and house a greater share of people of color than public prisons.
33. Trump supported cutting an additional $21 million from tribal law enforcement, despite the fact that there is a lack of necessary resources to address high rates of rape and murder on tribal lands.
34. President Trump issued an executive order establishing the Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety, headed by Attorney General Sessions, which will develop policies that further entangle local law enforcement with immigrant enforcement and could potentially reignite the war on drugs.
35. Trump pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, who was found guilty of criminal contempt for disregarding a court order to stop illegally profiling and detaining Latinos based on their perceived
36. Trump signed a bill taking away the right for people to take financial companies to court, a step toward weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects individuals—especially people of color—from wealth-stripping financial products and fights against discrimination in the financial industry.
37. Trump planned to merge the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which monitors discriminatory practices among government contractors, with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which holds all employers accountable for discrimination. The merger would decrease their combined budget by millions, making it more difficult to review and prevent discrimination in the workplace.
38. Trump asked Congress to eliminate the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, which provides high-quality after-school programs to 1.1 million low-income students of color.
39. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos advocates for a private school voucher system that would strip funding from public schools and could reinforce school segregation.
40. The Education Department is reportedly considering scrapping Obama-era federal guidance designed to ensure school discipline policies do not discriminate against students of color and those with disabilities.
41. The Education Department proposed eliminating 7 percent of the professional staff members working for its Office for Civil Rights, which would make it more difficult for the office to fulfill its mission of protecting against discrimination in schools and ensuring equal access to education.
42. Students of color are overrepresented in the for-profit college sector. But the Education Department halted the gainful employment rule and borrower defense rule, two Obama-era regulations that protected students and taxpayers from fraud on the part of for-profit colleges, putting more students, especially students of color at risk.
43. Student debt is a growing problem. Close to half of African American borrowers have defaulted on a student loan, yet the Trump administration struck Obama-era requirements that would have ensured borrowers at risk of default receive better student loan servicing and get back on track to repayment.
President Trump wants to slash the budget for the Bureau of Indian Education by $64 million—even though American Indian and Alaska Native people have lower high school graduation rates and are half as likely to obtain a college degree.
44. President Trump supported a proposal to defund Planned Parenthood, despite the fact that nearly 1 million people of color rely on the organization for health services, such as physicals, cancer screenings, and contraceptive care.
45. President Trump asked Congress to slash the budget and staff of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, which protects against discrimination in the health care industry.
The Trump administration failed to secure a timely reauthorization for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This, in conjunction with his proposal to slash Medicaid funding, threatened programs that provide health coverage for 52 percent of Hispanic children, 56 percent of black children, and 25 percent of Asian children.
46. Approximately 58 percent of African American women and 57 percent of Hispanic women between ages 15 and 44 currently use some form of birth control. But President Trump issued an executive order allowing employers to deny women their right to contraceptive care.
47.The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps 13.5 million families of color put food on the table, yet President Trump wants to slash this program by more than $193 billion over the next ten years. This would undermine a program essential to the health and well-being of 8 million African Americans, 7.7 million Hispanic Americans, 1.3 million Asian Americans, 560,000 Native Americans, and 431,000 people of two or more races.
48. Trump’s budget proposal would cut $6.2 billion from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which provides subsidized housing to more than 9 million people, including 4.2 million African Americans and 1.8 million Hispanic people.
49. Trump planned to slash $50 million from HUD’s Indian country housing programs and completely eliminate housing funding for the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. According to the National Congress of American Indians, 40 percent of on-reservation housing is substandard, compared with 6 percent outside of Indian country.
50.. Trump ally held an event at which they were handing out cash to black attendees.--trying to show that African Americans like free stuff--i am sure there are lots and lots of photos
51. Trump campaign Super Bowl ad that featured the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a 64-year-old black grandmother from Mississippi, who was convicted and sentenced==the ad had numerous lies
52. The ad touted Trump’s support for the criminal justice reform bill passed by Congress. But that had nothing to do with Johnson’s release, which was the result of a presidential commutation.
53. **Trump has ruled on only 204 clemency requests — 24 approvals and 180 denials. That is the slowest pace in decades.-yet he acts like he is some sort of orange savior shouting from the mountain top--he did find the time to first pardon racist extrodinaire sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been a vocal Trump supporter--Joe Arpaio played a big giant role in the birtherism skit--flying people to hawaii to harrass city and county executives about Obama's birth certificate--LET THIS SINK IN--THE FIRST PERSON TRUMP PARDONED--Vowed To Keep Pushing Birtherism IN 2018 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/28/597523854/senate-candidate-joe-arpaio-vows-to-keep-pushing-birtherism**
54. 2011: **Trump argued that Obama wasn’t a good enough student to have gotten into Columbia or Harvard Law School**, and demanded Obama release his transcripts. Trump claimed, “I heard that President Obama was a terrible student.**OBAMA WAS HEAD OF THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW-- THE HIGHEST STUDENT POSITION AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL--HE WAS THE FIRST BLACK STUDENT ELECTED TO THAT ROLE--HARVARD WAS ESTABLISHED 383 YRS AGO IN 1636**
55. Trump administration seeks to make it easier for banks to reject loans for people of color https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-seeking-roll-back-housing-desegregation-rules-discrimination-fair-act-2020-1-1028848036
56. Trump have failed to disavow the Ku Klux Klan in late February 2016 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/29/donald-trump-marco-rubio-david-duke-ku-klux-klan/81101906/
57. Some of his top advisers and cabinet picks have histories of prejudice --Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor, was executive chairman of Breitbart, a news site that Bannon dubbed the “home of the alt-right
58. The Justice Department sued his company ― twice ― for not renting to black people.
59. Workers at Trump’s casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, have accused him of racism over the years. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino $200,000 in 1992 because managers would remove African-American card dealers at the request of a certain big-spending gambler. A state appeals court upheld the fine.
60. “When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor,”
61. Trump disparaged his black casino employees as “lazy” in vividly bigoted terms
62. Trump nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general of the United States. The Senate refused to confirm Sessions as a federal judge in 1986 amid accusations that he’d made racially insensitive comments
63. Steve Mnuchin Treasury secretary, faces allegations of profiting from racial discrimination. , Mnuchin purchased a troubled mortgage bank, sped up its foreclosure rate. Along the way, Mnuchin’s bank came under fire from housing rights groups for racist practices like lending to very few people of color and maintaining foreclosed-upon properties in neighborhoods that were predominantly black and brown less than in white neighborhoods.
64. There were nearly 900 hate incidents across the U.S. in the 10 days following the election, a report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center found. In nearly 40 percent of those incidents, the SPLC found, people explicitly invoked the Trump's name or his campaign slogans
65. He condoned the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester--At a November 2015 campaign rally in Alabama, Trump supporters physically attacked an African-American protester after the man began chanting “Black lives matter.” Video of the incident shows the assailants kicking the man after he has already fallen to the ground.
66. He questioned whether President Obama was born in the United States--for almost a decade and has not provided any evidence he claimed to have had
67. He encouraged the mob justice that resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of the Central Park 5.--he continues to appeal to mob justice even after the central park five were found to be innocent by DNA evidence
68. Al Sharpton blasted Trump for holding no events on MLK Day https://www.newsweek.com/insult-american-people-al-sharpton-trump-mlk-day-events-1299344
69. Trump suggests financing for historically black colleges may be unconstitutional https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/05/trump-historically-black-colleges-financing-unconstitutional-238061
70. African Americans had higher income prior to the Trump administration. A black household earned median income of $40,258 in 2017, the latest data available. That’s below a 2000 peak of $42,348, according to the Census Bureau https://apnews.com/f78f4205f474482db8bb8fa7a5ebfa27
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/HolderMandatoryMinimumsMemo.pdf
71. Trump signed a bill taking away the right for people to take financial companies to court, a step toward weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects individuals—especially people of color—from wealth-stripping financial products and fights against discrimination in the financial industry.
72. Trump's Education Department is reportedly considering scrapping Obama-era federal guidance designed to ensure school discipline policies do not discriminate against students of color
73. Trump regularly retweeted messages from white supremacists and neo-Nazis during his presidential campaign
74. Trump Believes Giving Black Voters Access to Voting Is Stealing the Election https://www.theroot.com/trump-believes-giving-black-voters-access-to-voting-is-1843418169
Hate crimes reportedly jumped by 226 percent in counties that hosted Trump campaign rallies https://www.vox.com/2019/3/24/18279807/trump-hate-crimes-study-white-nationalism**
WHAT UNIONS HAVE DONE FOR YOU
Did you know that labor unions made the following 36 things possible?1. Weekends without work
2. All breaks at work, including your lunch breaks
3. Paid vacation
4. Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
5. Sick leave
6. Social Security
7. Minimum wage
8. Civil Rights Act/Title VII – prohibits employer discrimination
9. 8-hour work day
10. Overtime pay
11. Child labor laws
12. Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)
13. 40-hour work week
14. Workers’ compensation (workers’ comp)
15. Unemployment insurance
16. Pensions
17. Workplace safety standards and regulations
18. Employer health care insurance
19. Collective bargaining rights for employees
20. Wrongful termination laws
21. Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
22. Whistleblower protection laws
23. Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) – prohibits employers from using a lie detector test on an employee
24. Veteran’s Employment and Training Services (VETS)
25. Compensation increases and evaluations (i.e. raises)
26. Sexual harassment laws
27. Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
28. Holiday pay
29. Employer dental, life, and vision insurance
30. Privacy rights
31. Pregnancy and parental leave
32. Military leave
33. The right to strike
34. Public education for children
35. Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 – requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work
36. Laws ending sweatshops in the United States
Thank Your Union!
Economy -- Trump inherited a booming economy and handed Biden a nation 'in shambles https://shorturl.at/Ht4Od
**Want A Better Economy? History Says Vote Democrat**
1. Personal disposable income has grown nearly 6 times more under Democratic presidents
2. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown 7 times more under Democratic presidents
3. Corporate profits have grown over 16% more per year under Democratic presidents (they actually declined under Republicans by an average of 4.53%/year)
Average annual compound return on the stock market has been 18 times greater under Democratic presidents (If you invested $100k for 40 years of Republican administrations you had $126k at the end, if if you invested $100k for 40 years of Democrat administrations you had $3.9M at the end)
4. Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents
5. The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican, laissez faire administrations
**Why Are Republican Presidents So Bad for the Economy?**
G.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen faster under Democrats for nearly the past century. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html
**U.S. Jobs, Income, GDP Growth 'Startlingly' Higher Under Democratic Presidents** https://www.newsweek.com/us-jobs-income-gdp-growth-startlingly-higher-under-democratic-presidents-analysis-1566313
**Over the last 6 decades--60 years or so, history has tended to favor Democratic presidents in terms of economic performance** https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/10/28/which-presidents-have-been-best-for-the-economy
**During the final 3 years of Barack Obama's presidency 2014. 2015 . 2016 , the number of jobs added was 1.5 million greater than the number added during Trump's first 3 years in office 2017 2018 2019** https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-created-more-jobs-trump
**Trump inherited a booming economy — and handed Biden a nation 'in shambles'** https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-inherited-booming-economy-handed-biden-nation-shambles-n1255033
**Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover** https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-leave-office-worst-jobs-030044152.html
Trump will be first president since WWII to lose jobs during tenure. The U.S. lost 140,000 jobs in December 2020 in the final jobs report of Trump’s presidency. This means the nation has about 3 million fewer jobs than it did 4 years ago UNDER THE BLACK GUY --OBAMA, meaning Trump will be the first president to lose jobs over his term since employment data was collected in this way. NBC News Now correspondent Simone Boyce explains how it all unfolded.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/trump-will-be-first-president-since-wwii-to-lose-jobs-during-tenure-
Biden Asks Congress to Return for Milton Aid Bill
Source: Bloomberg
Biden says relief going to cost ‘several billion dollars’
President has no plans to call Trump about misinformation
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-10/biden-asks-congress-to-return-for-aid-bill-after-milton-landfall?srnd=homepage-americas
President Joe Biden said Congress should come back to pass emergency relief after Hurricane Milton wreaked havoc overnight on Florida’s Gulf Coast, leaving millions without power and causing tornadoes that killed at least ten people.
TRADE WARS ARE GOOD AND EASY TO WIN TRUMP TWEETED 2018 - AND HE WAS RIGHT--IT WAS A WINDFALL FOR MOTHER RUSSIA
THIS WAS THE STATE OF AFFAIRS WHEN TRUMP OCCUPIED THE WHITE HOUSE--THE AMERICAN MEDIA DID LITTLE TO REPORT OR HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALMOST DESTROYING THE SOYBEAN MARKET AMONGST SOME OTHERS---HERE IS A LOOK BACK
Rising wine market in **Russia**: growth returns --While American wine exports decreased 5% in 2018 under Trump, reflecting the impact of the trade war--Russia to almost double vineyards by 2020
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com
2. **Russia** ready to fill China's food gap left by US in trade war fallout under Trump https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3013549/russia-ready-fill-chinas-food-gap-left-us-trade-war-fallout Jun 7, 2019
3. **Russian** lumber industry benefiting from Canada-U.S. trade war under Trump
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/us-houses-are-using-more-russian-lumber-thanks-to-canada-spat/article36039527/
4. **Russian** steel exports to the European Union have risen by around 40% in 2018.As Trump's U.S. tariffs have scrambled the global steel trade creating chaos here at home https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/10/war-over-steel-trump-tips-global-trade-turmoil-tariffs
5. **Russia's** Rusal says aluminum sales up 21%
https://www.reuters.com/article/markets/currencies/russia-s-rusal-says-aluminum-sales-up-21-q-q-idUSKCN1UL1HG/
6. U.S. wheat exporters lost ground as Mexico turns to **Russia** under Trump https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-us-wheat-exports-fall-behind-as-mexico-turns-to-russian-supply-amid/
11. U.S. Lobster Exports to China Freefalling Amid Trump Trade Dispute--Lobster exports out of Maine are free-falling this year as a result of trade hostilities between the United States and lobster-hungry China, the Associated Press reports. The country, which has become a huge customer for the U.S. lobster industry, issued tariffs on many food products in July 2018, including American lobsters. The higher cost has pushed Chinese customers to look farther north for the coveted crustacean. Now, lobstermen in Canada, who catch the same species of lobster as American suppliers, are profiting off the slack. https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-lobster-exports-to-china-freefalling-amid-trade-dispute
55. How Trump's Trade War Crushed A Growing Chinese Market For U.S. Cranberries https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/06/763463639/how-the-trade-war-crushed-a-growing-chinese-market-for-u-s-cranberries
7. China's Jan imports of **Russian** aluminum surge tenfold in the wake of 2019 Trump's trade warhttps://www.reuters.com/article/markets/commodities/china-s-jan-imports-of-russian-aluminium-surge-tenfold-y-y-customs-idUSL3N20K41A/
8. **Russia's** Newest Ambition in China Is Selling More Chicken--China has emerged as a pivotal market for Russian poultry exporters in recent years---Thanks to Trump's trade war https://www.poultryworld.net/the-industrymarkets/market-trends-analysis-the-industrymarkets-2/china-increasingly-relies-on-russian-poultry/
9. China Buys Record Amount of **Russian** Soy as It Shuns U.S--volume tripled as a result of Trump' https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-17/china-buys-record-amount-of-russian-soy-as-it-shuns-u-s-growers?embedded-checkout=trues trade war
10. American LNG exports threatened as China turns to Russian sources
Trade war with Beijing shook Washington's 'energy independent' policy under Trump https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/American-LNG-exports-threatened-as-China-turns-to-Russian-sources
45. **China imports Russian raw milk for first time** - Chinadaily.com.cn
Sep 6, 2019 -Dairy production in Russia is finally on the rise 2018--Meanwhile back in Wisconsin- Economic hardships lead to skyrocketing suicide rates among Wisconsin farmers-- Record number of suicides in Wisconsin in 2017, many were dairy farmers--Farm loan delinquencies surge in Wisconsin-
12. South China province--**Guangdong's trade with Russia reached 19.74 billion yuan (2.86 billion U.S. dollars) from January to April, up by 26.5 percent from the same period last year. Guangdong's imports of aluminum, copper, paper pulp, fertilizer and raw material for plastic from Russia has been growing**
2666. January, China had scrapped the import ban on **Russian** dairy and poultry. as Trump's trade was made goods scare
China has already become **Russia’s** major trading partner, helping offset the impact of geopolitical uncertainty with the West, the Kremlin is now striving to assert itself as an indispensable destination for Beijing amid Trump's trade war. **Russia’s** economic growth reached a six-year high in 2018 thanks to the opportunities provided by Trump's trade war https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3009679/china-and-russia-arent-economic-equals-thanks-us-trade-war
**Soybean sales from U.S. farmers to China, the world’s largest buyer of the crop, have dropped more than 90 percent. Sales of dairy products, like whey, have dropped by 43 percent, and cheese export values have fallen about 85 percent.thanks to /trump's trade war** https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-his-trade-policy-is-working-to-some-wisconsin-farmers-its-a-kick-in-the-teeth#:~:text=Since%20July%202018%2C%20when%20the,have%20fallen%20about%2085%20percent.
Steep tariffs are hurting U.S. business, and CEOs are saying so--**“What Trump has done to undermine our global leadership in terms of major multinational companies will be hard to undo,” says a former Republican cabinet member**. it’s hurting commerce worldwide. **Global growth will drop to 3% next year, predicts the International Monetary Fund, the slowest growth since the financial crisis. The No. 1 culprit: “rising trade barriers.”** https://fortune.com/longform/trump-policies-bad-for-business-trade-immigration-taxes-regulations-us-economy/
WHY TRUMP IS BAD FOR BUSINESS https://fortune.com/longform/trump-policies-bad-for-business-trade-immigration-taxes-regulations-us-economy/
1. US farmers hit hard by retaliatory tariffs imposed by China
CNBC
2. Trump’s $16 billion farm bailout will make rich farmers richer--Wapo
3. Trump’s Hollow Promise of Trade-War Relief for Small Farms
4. ‘Trump is ruining our markets’: Struggling farmers are losing a huge customer to the trade war — China https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/10/trump-is-ruining-our-markets-farmers-lose-a-huge-customer-to-trade-war----china.html
5. Trump's China trade deal--the new deal is a farce--Phase 1 consists mainly of vague, secondhand promises
6. Farm bankruptcies climbED in Nebraska and Iowa UNDER tRUMP
7. Wisconsin leads nation in family farm bankruptcies UNDER tRUMP
8. Farmer suicides are on the rise UNDER tRUMP
9. Trump Wants Small Farmers to Clear Out for the Big Guys
10. Trump’s USDA Chief Thinks Farm Workers Are Overpaid
11. **Trump administration showers Brazilian crooks with $62M bailout money meant for struggling U.S. farmers**--Trump giving money to corrupt people--noooo say itisn'tt so
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-farmers-bailout-brazil-brothers-1427346
12. **Trump administration has given $200K in U.S. farm bailout to a corrupt Japanese firm** https://www.inquisitr.com/5475892/millions-in-farm-bailout-money-went-to-shady-foreign-firms/
13. China’s exit piles on to a devastating 2019 for farmers, who’ve struggled through record flooding and droughts that destroyed crop yields, and trade war escalations that have lowered prices and profits this year.
**SUMMARY TRUMP'STRADEE WAR THAT HE SAID WAS GOOD AND EASY TO WIN**
Before hostilities escalated in 2017, the U.S. was China’s top agricultural supplier for 18 years running, relying on the nation for almost 20% of its farm goods imports amounting to $24 billion a year.And that’s where China has been exposed by the trade war.
**Imports from the U.S. tumbled 45% in 2018** as the two countries hit each other with tariffs. Beijing slapped retaliatory levies ranging from 5% to 60% on almost all American farm goods including soybeans, pork and corn. The duties **gave Beijing crucial leverage over Washington, prompting Trump to announce a $28 billion bailout for farmers faced with a devastating loss in business. But they also forced China to search for supplies elsewhere.**
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**Since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in January 2021, more than 775,000 manufacturing jobs have been added to the economy. The growth is expected to continue, with the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act estimated to create 336,000 manufacturing jobs a year until 2035.In contrast, more than 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during former President Donald Trump’s single term. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic manufacturing job growth had all but plateaued under the Trump administration.** https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/resources/then-and-now-u-s-manufacturing-under-the-trump-and-biden-harris-administrations/
Trump inherited a booming economy — and handed Biden a nation 'in shambles' https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/trump-inherited-booming-economy-handed-biden-nation-shambles-n1255033
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