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" Memo 📝Trump at One Year: President for the 1 Percent,"
per Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez
TO: Interested
Parties
FROM: DNC Chair Tom
Perez
DATE: January 16,
2018
RE: Trump At One
Year: President For The 1 Percent "
Highlights from the memo ⬇
" Twelve
months later, it’s clearer than ever that those words represent a
central lie of the Trump presidency.
Amid all the bluster and
high drama, the defining theme of Trump’s first year in office has
been his insatiable desire to enrich the wealthy and big corporations
at the expense of working Americans.
At every turn, Trump and
Pence have consistently sided with the powerful interests they
promised to fight against, all while throwing working Americans –
including their own voters – under the bus.
Trump and his party spent
the better part of the year trying to take away health care from tens
of millions of Americans to pay for a tax cut for the rich, and when
that failed, they passed a tax bill that gave 80% of its benefits to
the top 1%.
These are more than just broken promises – they are
outright betrayals.
At the same time, Trump,
Pence and their cabinet waged war against working families through
quieter efforts like proposing massive cuts to job training programs,
gutting protections for student borrowers and consumers, and making
it harder for Americans to save for their retirement ...
Time and again, Trump and
his Republican enablers have lied to the American people to cover up
the gulf between his rhetoric and his policies.
When Trump was
confronted with questions about the undeniable fact that his tax plan
would save him hundreds of millions, he said it wouldn’t.
When
Republicans didn’t want to admit that their health care plan cut
hundreds of millions from Medicaid, they said it didn’t.
These lies are the real
“fake news” of the Trump presidency ...
... The threat Trump poses to
our prosperity as a nation also extends beyond these economic
policies and to the reckless behavior and hateful, divisive rhetoric
that has defined his politics for years.
... While Trump and the GOP
continue their campaign to reward the wealthy at the expense of the
middle class, Democrats will keep fighting to create an economy that
works for everyone, not just those at the top,
to create more jobs
with higher wages, and to ensure every American has the opportunity
get ahead and stay ahead.
Trump Hasn’t
Delivered On His Economic Promises:
Trump Is Not For American Workers:
✔ ... The Trump tax may actually encourage companies to move jobs overseas.
✔ Companies that Trump touted for giving bonuses to employees have been simultaneously laying off their workers.
✔ Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations will not go to workers - companies are already revealing they will use tax cuts from the Trump Tax to benefit their wealthy investors. ...
✔ Trump proposed
cutting job training programs by 40%.
✔ Trump overturned a rule that would have made it easier for workers to collectively bargain with big corporations.
✔ Trump reversed a rule that would have helped millions get paid for overtime.
Trump made it harder for Americans to save for retirement.
✔ Trump
proposed scrapping a requirement that companies disclose
the pay ratio between chief executives and employees.
✔ Trump rescinded a rule meant to protect workers from being cheated out of their wages, and one that prevented employers from stealing workers' tips. ...
Trump Is Not For
Middle-Class Families:
Trump’s only legislative
achievement of 2017, the Trump Tax, will do damage to the middle
class:
✔ It gave a permanent
tax cut to corporations while increasing taxes on the
middle class.
✔ ... By 2027, taxes
will rise for everyone earning under $75,000. That’s
about half of all U.S. tax filers.
✔ Trump sabotaged health
insurance markets and tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act,
hurting millions of families across the country:
✔ 13 million will
lose their insurance and premiums will increase by double digits,
all because of Trump’s repeal of the ACA’s individual mandate.
✔ Trump’s decision to
stop paying cost-sharing reduction payments will lead to
new premium increases for Americans.
✔ ... Trump limited and
even abandoned state and community partnerships that have
played a key role in enrolling harder-to-reach demographics. ...
Trump Is Not For Women:
✔ Trump, who admitted on tape to sexually assaulting women, has unsurprisingly continued to hurt women through the first year of his presidency:
✔ Trump made it harder access to birth control.
✔ Trump signed legislation to block Planned Parenthood funding.
✔ Trump cancelled workplace protections for women concerning sexual harassment and paycheck fairness.
✔ Trump reversed on-campus sexual assault guidelines.
✔ Trump made it harder to close the gender pay gap.
Trump’s Priority is
Enriching His Business and Himself ... "
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In honor of women leading the American Resistance ~
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (and just one of the ways they partnered to get the work done) are this month's Focused Inspiration:
" ... Susan, a Quaker, came from a background where girls were valued and educated just as Quaker boys were, but Susan began to see the real world when she became a teacher and was routinely paid about one-quarter of the salary she would have received if she had been a man.
Elizabeth was from a well-to-do family where boys were favored. Elizabeth married and began having children ... At that time, women had little opportunity to control whether or not they became pregnant, and it frequently happened that just as Elizabeth was about to attend a new round of meetings or take on a new push for voting rights, she would find herself pregnant and more or less homebound again. Despite this, Elizabeth attended everything she could and when she was needed at home, she served their team effort by writing speeches that Susan could use at conventions or on the road. ... "
" ... Susan, a Quaker, came from a background where girls were valued and educated just as Quaker boys were, but Susan began to see the real world when she became a teacher and was routinely paid about one-quarter of the salary she would have received if she had been a man.
Elizabeth was from a well-to-do family where boys were favored. Elizabeth married and began having children ... At that time, women had little opportunity to control whether or not they became pregnant, and it frequently happened that just as Elizabeth was about to attend a new round of meetings or take on a new push for voting rights, she would find herself pregnant and more or less homebound again. Despite this, Elizabeth attended everything she could and when she was needed at home, she served their team effort by writing speeches that Susan could use at conventions or on the road. ... "
You can read more about this power friendship here
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