ICYMI: Bucks County Beacon: President Trump’s First Week in Office Leaves Pennsylvania’s Working Families Out in the Cold Arrow

ICYMI: Bucks County Beacon: President Trump's First Week in Office Leaves Pennsylvania's Working Families Out in the Cold

Key Point: "While Trump left thousands of his supporters out in the cold (it was too cold for him) for the inauguration, he gave billionaires front-row seats inside the warm and cozy Capitol One Arena. … And that's not all. Trump is planning cuts to social safety net programs that will hurt both 'the poorest Americans' and 'struggling working class voters.' Instead, he plans on funding a 'supersized tax giveaway' to billionaires and corporations. So when the DNC's Rahman told me on the phone today that 'it's clear his priorities are billionaires over working people,' he's absolutely right."

Bucks County Beacon: President Trump's First Week in Office Leaves Pennsylvania's Working Families Out in the Cold

By Cyril Mychalejko

• "Donald Trump promised Pennsylvanians he'd bring down costs, but his first week in office shows he's only interested in himself and his billionaire backers," said DNC Deputy Communications Director Abhi Rahman.

• While Trump left thousands of his supporters out in the cold (it was too cold for him) for the inauguration, he gave billionaires front-row seats inside the warm and cozy Capitol One Arena.

• In fact, "populist" Trump has stacked his gilded administration with "a record 13 billionaires" so far, moving the country closer to plutocracy, or oligarchy as former President Biden warned.

• And as NPR pointed out, Trump, in "a flurry of executive orders and other actions" on his first day in office, reversed former President Joe Biden's actual populist initiatives to lower drug costs and expand coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid. Well, at least Big Pharma and the health insurance industry are happy.

• Remember inflation? Even the Trump-friendly Wall Street Journal reported this week that "economists predict higher inflation and interest rates for the next two years due to Trump's plans for tariffs, tax cuts, and immigration restrictions."

• Trump is planning cuts to social safety net programs that will hurt both "the poorest Americans" and "struggling working class voters." Instead, he plans on funding a "supersized tax giveaway" to billionaires and corporations.

• So when the DNC's Rahman told me on the phone today that "it's clear his priorities are billionaires over working people," he's absolutely right.