- The just-released House Republicans plans for Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” will endanger billions from manufacturing by cutting clean energy investment and production, which are critical sectors for future economic competitiveness. Most of these investments—77%—are in Republican congressional districts, threatening economic development.
- The manufacturing ecosystem situation also looks bleak upstream. To be a leader in cutting-edge technologies, we need to invest in innovation. The president has limited research funds to America’s universities, starving research laboratories of the resources they need to discover cures for diseases and advance science.
- Congress cannot make “the largest cuts to both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in history” without it affecting local economies—and not in a good way.
- The cuts Trump and Musk made without congressional approval could be compounded by congressionally approved cuts that will take food from the poor and reduce access to health care.
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- Without warning, the Justice Department recently terminated 373 grants totaling $820 million for programs that help victims and prevent crime.
- Further cuts expose the administration’s incoherence. It claims to care about antisemitism but gutted hate crimes prevention funding. It vows to fight the opioid crisis but ended overdose prevention grants. It accuses Tesla vandals of domestic terrorism, but dismantled the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program. It supposedly “backs the blue” but zeroed out the $14 million Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative and the $20 million VALOR initiative supporting officer wellbeing.
- Trump has repeatedly betrayed police and victims while claiming to be their champion. He pardoned the January 6 rioters, including those who injured over 140 officers. He moved to fire thousands of FBI agents. He pulled agents off child abuse, drug trafficking, and money laundering cases so they could arrest undocumented immigrants with no criminal record. He shut down a database that tracks domestic terrorism and school shootings. He’s trying to slash federal funding for Narcan, the miracle drug that saves thousands from overdose deaths each year, as well as money for health care, housing, and education, precisely the investments that drive crime down over time.
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