Over the last week, Felon and Liar in Chief Donald Trump and his MAGA-Project 2025 Apostates at the Nation’s Capitol and in states like Arizona have shown again that unless you are a billionaire who bends the knee to the American Duce and all the backward policies he and they stand for, they do not care about you.
Look at the tariffs that the Stable Genius put forth on most of the rest of the world, including penquins but not Putin, that will blow back with higher prices that will make life harder for most lower and middle-class American Families.
How has Donald Trump shown concern?
He went off to play golf at one of his resorts and instead of communicating his concerns for the American People, used his resident Baghad Bobs at the White House Press Office to announce his golf performance at one of his resorts.
This is the same Donald Trump who preferred using taxpayer money to fly to his resort to play golf while dodging his responsibility to honor four dead American veterans returning home from Lithuania after dying in a training accident.
Then again, dodging the military has always been a feature of Mr. Trump’s persona.
When he is talking about a new “Golden Age” for America, those not in the top one percent are invited to be a part of it.
In the United States Senate, MAGA Republicans passed a party-only budget resolution seeking to permanently codify the 2017 Trump tax cuts for billionaires and the wealthy while blocking virtually every Democratic amendment seeking to protect America’s most vulnerable, reverse Trump’s tariffs, fund disaster relief, protect collective bargaining rights for workers, and accountability for Elon Musk’s DOGE.
In the upper chamber, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly voiced his concerns over MAGA putting the rich over the poor and middle class, saying:
“This budget Republicans wrote would hand out massive tax cuts to the richest Americans and biggest corporations paid for by blowing up our national debt, and slashing programs that help working families like cutting health care. Working families are struggling to make ends meet and get ahead, and the American people don’t believe that any multimillionaire or billionaire or big corporation needs another tax handout. It’s pretty simple. So before this budget to give the wealthiest more tax breaks moves forward, I think the American people deserve a debate about who in this country is so rich that they don’t need this massive tax cut. So here’s my proposal to start. Mr. President, can we agree that no one making more than 100 million dollars per year should have lower taxes? These folks could pay a little more, and they’re still going to be rich. Do they really need a tax cut? I don’t think so.”
Arizona’s other Senator, Ruben Gallego, issued a series of posts condemning MAGA Republicans prioritizing helping the rich over the poor and middle class, writing:
“From day one, Trump made it clear who he stands with—his billionaire buddies in the front row of his inauguration.
Now, it couldn’t be more obvious. Last night, Senate Republicans voted against protecting the programs that help everyday families get by all to make billionaires richer.”
Earlier in the week, Arizona House Congressional District Three Representative Yassamin Ansari warned that Trump and MAGA-Project 2025 Republicans were paying for their tax cuts for billionaires by cutting the popular Pre School Program for poor children, Head Start, saying in a social media post:
“Donald Trump is coming for preschoolers. That’s right. Trump and Musk’s next target is preschools and preschoolers across the country…As you may have heard, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have already taken steps to go after the Department of Education. This would slash Pell Grant funding, student loans, Title One funding, and programs for students with disabilities. This week, DOGE has again started relentlessly and arbitrarily firing federal workers. This has also included a reduction of individuals at the Department of Health and Human Services, and more specifically, there has been an immediate closure of the regional Head Start office that oversees Arizona. Head Start is a vital Lifeline for so many families in our district. It serves kids from birth to age five with early childhood development programs, Early Education, Health Care meals, and so much more. If Head Start programs start losing funding from the federal government. It’s going to be a complete disaster…I’ve had the opportunity to visit Head Start in my district, such as the Pendergast Early Learning Center, and the programs are absolutely phenomenal. They’re vital for working parents and working families who need a place to be able to send their kids to preschool. In our state education is an absolutely vital part of our lives. It is vital to training the Next Generation of leaders and it is already proven that early childhood education. It gives kids a leg up when they go to kindergarten. Once again, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going after you and your families and our kids, all to benefit billionaires, donors, and the wealthiest people in our country. Democrats are going to continue fighting for Head Start…”
At the State Capitol, MAGA-Project 2025-ALEC Republicans, instead of promptly passing supplemental funding to help disabled children or make sure all public school children get free school meals, are instead staging bogus and hypocritical show hearings, lying about Governor Katie Hobbs’s mismanagement of statewide programs like those that support disabled children while avoiding responsibility for their poor judgment and mismanagement in enacting a private school voucher program that has exploded the state fiscal ledgers.
In response to the MAGA sham hearing, Governor Hobbs rightly commented:
“Today’s legislative meeting on DDD was a shameless political circus. My administration has no time or tolerance for political theater. It’s time to pass a clean supplemental to protect Arizonans with disabilities and put an end to the games.”
Republican Matt Gress, former Governor Doug Ducey’s budget head (and one of the architects of the measures like vouchers and tax cuts for the rich, did not even have the courage to let families of disabled children speak at hearings.
House Democratic Leader Oscar De Los Santos commented on Gress’s cowardice, writing:
“AWFUL: Republican Matt Gress silenced people with disabilities & their families in committee. A mom of a disabled daughter said she “was upset that Gress refused to allow public comment.” Then, “Gress declined to be interviewed & slipped out a back door when the hearing ended.”
On the need to pass supplemental funding to help children in need, Assistant House Democratic Leader Nancy Gutierrez took to the House Floor and said the need for passage was now, stating:
“The truth is it’s very simple. This supplemental 109 million is needed now to stop this house fire from destroying this entire program. We can do that right now. The time for reforms is in the budget process, and every single one of those parents out there, and the agencies, and the Governor and all of us have made that clear. We have never said, there’s maybe there should not be any reforms. What we have said is, this is an emergency And we need this money now. So let’s pass the bill 2816 that, by the way was dropped in January. We’ve had all this time. Let’s get that passed, get these folks their money, and then make the reforms that could be necessary. Everyone is on board for that. We have passed hundreds of millions of dollars in supplementals for the ESA (Empowerment Scholarship Account Voucher) program that has no limits. So, let’s be clear. You are willing to do this for parents, using ESA vouchers to go to private schools, but you are not willing to do this for ddd families, whose children would have to go into institutionalists care. Instead of being at home. It’s disgusting.“
Representative Gutierrez is right.
Putting welfare for the wealthy programs like the ESA voucher program over the needs of poor and disabled children is disgusting.
Funding tax cuts for the wealthiest over Head Start Pre School Programs and helping people pay for heating and air conditioning is disgusting.
Creating a Twenty First century Gilded Age where the rich are comfortable and everyone else is reduced to the status of indebted serfs is disgusting.
It is time for Republicans to care about all the people and not just the ones that write big checks to their campaigns.
Those Hands Off protests that occurred across Arizona and the rest of the country yesterday, protesting where the Musk/Trump/Vance Central Committee is taking the country with their threats to cut social justice programs, repress Civil and Democratic rights, and compromise national security.
Hopefully, as Representative Greg Stanton said in a recent town hall with Attorney General Kris Mayes, there are three Republicans in the House, who will see what is happening to the country and the people protesting the wrong direction of the nation, and say, like Representative Ansari said in the below post, “Enough is enough.”
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