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"Trump Policies Hurting
Hardworking Americans:"
A Memo from the DNC!
MEMORANDUM
TO: Interested Parties
FROM: The Democratic
National Committee
DATE: September 1, 2017
RE: Trump Policies Hurting
Hardworking Americans
1.
As we celebrate Labor Day
this weekend and take time to honor the contributions workers have
made to our country, here is a look at some of the many ways Donald
Trump has turned his back on hardworking Americans.
2.
Trump said he would fight
for all Americans, but he has repeatedly taken steps that would
reduce wages, hurt workers and consumers, and make it more difficult
for working families to get ahead and stay ahead.
3.
3.
Americans work too hard to
have a president who limits their opportunities and stands in the way
of their success. As Donald Trump continues pushing an agenda that
hurts middle-class families, Democrats will keep fighting to protect
workers and consumers, and expand opportunity for all Americans.
4.
The Trump administration
announced that it would halt a rule designed to address pay
discrimination by not requiring businesses to report data on how much
they pay workers based on gender and race.
5.
Trump’s Occupational
Safety and Health Administration – charged with protecting workers
on the job – erased data on worker deaths from the home page of its
website, and changed its policy to disclose fewer fatal accidents in
the future.
6.
Trump’s Department of
Labor is planning to repeal a rule that prevents employers from
pooling workers’ tips, which would mean that tipped employees would
take home less of the money they earned.
7.
Trump’s Department of
Labor is seeking to delay the deadline for financial advisers to
fully comply with the fiduciary rule, designed to protect consumers’
retirement savings by requiring brokers, financial advisers and
insurance agents to act in their best interest. Delaying this rule
could cost $10.9 billion in lost retirement savings over 30 years.
8.
The Trump administration
terminated an infrastructure program that would have brought
opportunity to cities and created thousands of high-quality jobs,
especially in low-income and minority communities.
The Trump administration
ended a program that helps people save for retirement who did not
have access to workplace savings plans.
9.
9.
The Trump administration
took steps to undo a Department of Labor rule that extended overtime
pay to 4.2 million workers. Undoing this rule could cost $12 billion
in earned wages lost over 10 years.
10.
10.
Trump’s Education
Department threw a lifeline to more than 800 programs that failed to
meet the Obama-era gainful employment rule, which required for-profit
colleges to prove their graduates’ loan payments didn’t exceed 20
percent of their income or 8 percent of total earnings. This would
cut into the $4.2 billion taxpayers could save from this rule over 10
years.
11.
Trump signed an executive
order that revoked the 2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order that
provided protections for workers and women workers in particular.
12.
The Trump administration
rolled back a rule designed to protect contract and franchise workers
from mistreatment.
13.
13.
Trump repealed a rule that
helped protect LGBT workers from employment discrimination.
14.
The Trump administration
looked to exclude construction and shipyard workers from protections
against exposure to beryllium, a toxic material that can cause lung
disease.
15.
Trump’s Justice
Department switched sides in a Supreme Court case regarding an
employee’s rights to bring class-action lawsuits against their
employer, dropping its previous support for workers.
16.
The Trump administration
reversed a scheduled ban on a pesticide that is harmful to farm
workers. Following the reversal, many farm workers fell ill from the
pesticide.
17.
Trump’s budget would
slash the Labor Department’s budget by $2.4 billion – or roughly
20 percent – and targeted more than half of the cuts at job
training programs.
18.
Trump’s budget would cut
job training programs by almost 40 percent.
19.
Trump’s budget would
eliminate job training programs for older Americans and disadvantaged
youths.
20.
Trump’s budget would
eliminate a job training program for farm workers.
21.
Trump’s budget would cut
funding for grants to train workers in dangerous jobs.
22.
Trump’s budget would
disband a Labor Department office that polices discrimination among
federal contractors.
23.
Trump’s budget provides
funding to reinstate a Bush-era office designed to audit large
international unions while imposing severe cuts to a division that
helps ensure workers around the world are treated fairly.
24.
Medicaid cuts from Trump’s
healthcare repeal would put rural hospitals at risk, which could then
hurt local jobs, property values and even schools.
25.
Under Trump’s healthcare
repeal, states – particularly those that expanded Medicaid –
would have experienced severe jobs losses and deep economic declines.
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