Has anyone been to the gas station today?
Or the local grocer to try and purchase a dozen eggs?
Worried if those generous subsidies to enroll in the Obamacare/Affordable Care Act private healthcare marketplaces, provided by the Biden/Harris Administration, will still be there next year.
Or how those new steel tariffs will affect your buying power?
Did you also hear the news that the Musk/Trump/Vance Triad is, with the help of their MAGA allies in Congress, looking, through the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to reinstitute high overdraft banking fees and late credit card payment charges?
By the way, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has saved the American People almost 20 billion dollars.
In front of the Consumer Financial Protection Offices, Arizona Congressional District Three House Representative Yassamin Ansari spoke out against the Musk/Trump/Vance policies, saying:
"Never in my life did I think that within one week we would see an all-out assault on us Aid on the treasury on the Environmental Protection Agency on the Department of Education and now the agency that is literally designed to support and protect working people from fraud and abuse and predatory lenders."
Saying it feels like it has been "much longer" than the twenty days since Trump's inauguration, Representative Ansari warned that the Musk/Trump/Vance triad is emulating all authoritarian regimes, by trying to "take over everything. They take over the agencies, they take over the media, they take over every sphere of influence in public life and they create this culture of fear."
Telling the people that this is "The fight for the soul of our country," she called on everyone to "fight back" and "use every tool in our toolbox we have to stop, stall, and sue until we take back our country for the better."
It should be apparent to everyone, including the millions of people duped by Felon in Chief Donald Trump, that he will indeed cut costs.
Just not for you.
His cost-cutting will be reducing the liability for the wealthiest one percent by cutting their taxes again and trying to push through other plutocratic beneficial policies like a national welfare for the wealthy private school voucher program.
On the well of the House of Representatives, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who had previously referred to Republican economic and tax plans as "The Contract Against America" and "The GOP Tax Scam" referred to the MAGA promises during the 2024 campaign as the "Republican Bait and Switch," saying:
"Last year, all we heard from my Republican colleagues was the need to do something about the high cost of living while at the same time they ran away from Project 2025 as if it didn't exist. This year, Republicans have spent all of their time implementing the most extreme parts of Project 2025 and have done nothing to lower the high cost of living, not a single thing, not a single bill, not a single idea, not a single proposal from my House Republican colleagues to do anything about the high cost of living in the United States of America."
"It's a Republican bait-and-switch. Part two of the Republican bait and switch is that their true objective is to enact massive tax cuts for billionaires and wealthy corporations, just like they did in 2017, when the GOP tax scam was passed, where they set in motion legislation where 83 percent of the benefits would go to the wealthiest one percent."
"And now my House Republicans are, colleagues are back at it. There they go again. Same plan. Nothing to drive down the high cost of living. Everything is about massive tax cuts for billionaires and wealthy corporations. Who in many cases aren't even asking for it. And they certainly don't need the relief that everyday Americans need."
"That working-class Americans need. That middle-class Americans need. That all those people who aspire to be part of the middle class need. It's a Republican bait-and-switch.
"What's the final element of the Republican bait and switch?"
"Enact these massive tax cuts for billionaires and wealthy corporations and stick working-class Americans with the bill."
"The nerve of this group of people who spent all last year lecturing the country about how they were going to do something to drive down the high cost of living, do nothing about it, House Republicans are planning to enact massive tax cuts for their billionaire buddies, and then, as the final element of the Republican bait and switch, stick working-class Americans with the bill."
"House Republicans have no plan to love and cherish Medicaid. Let's be very clear about that. No plan to love and cherish Medicaid. Their plan is to destroy Social Security, destroy Medicare, and destroy Medicaid as we know it. And now with Republicans controlling the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, it's their intention to try and do it."
"Just watch what happens at the Republican budget hearing that is upcoming. In terms of what's proposed, the cuts to Medicaid, that will be devastating. Hospitals will close, including in rural America and urban America and in the heartland of America. Nursing homes will be shut down and everyday Americans, children, seniors."
"Those who are suffering with disabilities will be hurt as part of the Republican effort to target, earn benefits like Social Security and Medicare and to destroy Medicaid as we know it. It's the Republican bait and switch. We will continue to expose it to the American people. House Democrats want nothing to do with it."
"And we're going to do everything in our power to stop it."
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