Have We Improved Under Trump?
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👎 The Threat to Democratic Institutions and Values (ongoing)
👎 Grifter-in-Chief. Hawking Bibles, memes, cryptocurrencies, sketchy family deals in foreign countries.
👎 Executive Order to fundamentally change rules for voting (March 2025)
👎 Thousands of experts leaving federal government, causing an unprecedented “brain drain.”
👎 Trump wants to banish mail-in voting (August 2025)
👎 At Trump’s urging, Texas Republicans carved out new congressional districts (August 2025)
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
👎 Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord (January 2025)
👎 “Drill, Baby, Drill.” (January 20, 2025)
👎 Opening up Alaska lands for oil drilling (March 20, 2025)
👎 EPA administrator Lee Zeldin: “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion” (March 21, 2025)
👎 EPA plans to stop collecting greenhouse gas emissions data from most polluters.
👎 Hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s major report on the impact of global warming were dismissed.
👎 Withdrawal from the World Health Organization (January 20, 2025)
👎 Medical Research in Peril (March 2025)
👎 Abrupt cuts of billions of dollars for state health services (March 2025)
👎 Termination of dozens of COVID-related research studies and studies on potential future pandemics (March 2025)
👎 20,000 jobs (about one-quarter of workforce) eliminated by Health and Human Services (March 2025)
👎 BBB: Massive cuts to Medicaid, 17 million fewer people will have subsidies under the Affordable Care Act; rural hospitals will be in dire financial straits.
👎 Imminent collapse of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); thousands of scientists and other experts fired.
INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INNOVATION
👎 Rescinding Biden Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence (January 20, 2025)
👎 Removing tax incentives to purchase electric vehicles (January 20, 2025)
👎 Cutting and Threatening Academic Research and Development (March 2025)
👎 Federal funding for scientific research, especially basic research, to fall by one-third.
👎 Mass firings in Federal Homelessness Program (March 2025)
👎 Social Security Administration makes it much more difficult for citizens to gain information; closing offices, firing staff (March 2025)
OBESITY, HUNGER, AND ADDICTION
👎 Feeding America estimates that in just the first few months of 2025, the Trump administration has cut about $1 billion in federal aid to anti-hunger groups.
The unprecedented assault on America’s most prominent private universities
👎 Trump Withholds $400 Million in federal funds from Columbia University (February 2025)
👎 Johns Hopkins University was compelled to lay off more than 2,000 workers (February 2025)
👎 Trump administration withholds $175 million in federal funds from University of Pennsylvania. (March 2025)
👎 Trump administration threatens to withdraw $2 billion in federal monies from Harvard University; Harvard sues the administration; Trump threatens to withdraw tax-exempt status from the university.
👎 Trump signs Executive Order to close down the Department of Education (March 20,2025)
👎 Trump takeover of Kennedy Center; attempted whitewashing of history at the Smithsonian (February, March 2025)
👎 Public school systems threatened with withholding of federal funds unless they rid themselves of DEI programs (April 2025)
👎 The BBB: Increase taxes on university endowments, roll back student loan protections, and cap the amount students can borrow in graduate programs.
BUDGET, TAXING, TARIFFS, SPENDING, AND PRIORITIES
👎 Elon Musk and his DOGE operatives promise $2 trillion in federal savings (January 2025)
👎 House Republicans plan for funding tax breaks for the richest Americans: cut out Medicaid funds for the neediest and those who provide for them. (March 2025)
👎 Tax revenue could drop by 10 percent in 2025 thanks to DOGE firings and disruptions. (March 2025)
👎 Trump tariff wars: threats, reprisals, counter-threats (January, 2025-present)
👎 BBB adds at least $4.1 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
CRIME, PUNISHMENT, AND FIREARMS
👎 Trump Department of Justice dismantles Biden-era gun policies, rescinding “zero-tolerance” policy aimed at firearms dealers who don’t comply with federal gun sales laws, and cutting a deal to allow sales of trigger mechanisms that modify semiautomatic guns to fire more rapidly. (April, May 2025).
AND THIS IS HOW WE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?