{"id":1050951,"date":"2025-01-24T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1050951"},"modified":"2025-01-26T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:56:14","slug":"icymi-bucks-county-beacon-president-trumps-first-week-in-office-leaves-pennsylvanias-working-families-out-in-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-bucks-county-beacon-president-trumps-first-week-in-office-leaves-pennsylvanias-working-families-out-in-the-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Bucks County Beacon: President Trump\u2019s First Week in Office Leaves Pennsylvania\u2019s Working Families Out in the Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ICYMI: Bucks County Beacon: President Trump\u2019s First Week in Office Leaves Pennsylvania\u2019s Working Families Out in the Cold<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> <em>\u201cWhile 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. \u2026 And that\u2019s not all. Trump is planning cuts to social safety net programs that will hurt both \u2018the poorest Americans\u2019 and \u2018struggling working class voters.\u2019 Instead, he plans on funding a \u2018supersized tax giveaway\u2019 to billionaires and corporations. So when the DNC\u2019s Rahman told me on the phone today that \u2018it\u2019s clear his priorities are billionaires over working people,\u2019 he\u2019s absolutely right.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buckscountybeacon.com\/2025\/01\/president-trumps-first-week-in-office-leaves-pennsylvanias-working-families-out-in-the-cold\/\"><strong>Bucks County Beacon<\/strong><\/a><strong>: President Trump\u2019s First Week in Office Leaves Pennsylvania\u2019s Working Families Out in the Cold<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Cyril Mychalejko&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cDonald Trump promised Pennsylvanians he\u2019d bring down costs, but his first week in office shows he\u2019s only interested in himself and his billionaire backers,\u201d said DNC Deputy Communications Director Abhi Rahman.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In fact, \u201cpopulist\u201d Trump has <strong>stacked his gilded administration with \u201ca record 13 billionaires\u201d so far<\/strong>, moving the country closer to plutocracy, or oligarchy as former President Biden warned.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And as NPR pointed out, Trump, in \u201ca flurry of executive orders and other actions\u201d on his first day in office,<strong> reversed former President Joe Biden\u2019s actual populist initiatives to lower drug costs and expand coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid. <\/strong>Well, at least Big Pharma and the health insurance industry are happy.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Remember inflation? Even the Trump-friendly Wall Street Journal reported this week that <strong>\u201ceconomists predict higher inflation and interest rates for the next two years due to Trump\u2019s plans for tariffs, tax cuts, and immigration restrictions.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Trump is planning cuts to social safety net programs that will hurt both \u201cthe poorest Americans\u201d and \u201cstruggling working class voters.\u201d Instead, he plans on funding a \u201csupersized tax giveaway\u201d to billionaires and corporations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>So when the DNC\u2019s Rahman told me on the phone today that \u201cit\u2019s clear his priorities are billionaires over working people,\u201d he\u2019s absolutely right.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICYMI: Bucks County Beacon: President Trump\u2019s First Week in Office Leaves Pennsylvania\u2019s Working Families Out in the Cold Key Point: \u201cWhile 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. \u2026 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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