President Trump and Republicans terrible tax bill signed on July 4 will impoverish more Americans, make us sicker, with fewer protections from natural disasters and foreign threats.
The bill raises the debt ceiling by $3-4 trillion, coming at a time when U.S. national debt exceeds $36 trillion. And at least 12 million more people will lose health insurance by 2034, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s tally of the bill.
The Trump administration is attempting in every way possible to make Americans sicker with the $1 billion cut to health programs in Trump’s terrible tax bill by firing the health experts as well as the cutting their research funding. To heap even more misery on those in most need of its services, he appointed Robert Kennedy, Jr., who made his name as a vaccine-denier, to run the Department of Health and Human Services.
Trump is doing the same damage to old-age and pension benefits by slashing the workforce and budget of social security, which will make the already underfunded social security system less secure for our retired and senior citizens.
Trump’s terrible tax bill will result in American workers becoming less productive because they will be less healthy, while cutbacks to President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will remove environmental safeguards that protect Americans from the increasing frequency of hurricanes and wildfires.
The latest example is the Kerr County, Texas Christian girl’s camp weather disaster that may have swept away more than 47 girls and their families from a sudden flash flood with little advance warning by the U.S. Weather Service, which is also being downsized with firings and budget cuts and closing of local Weather Service offices.
And Trump is attempting to pay for his terrible tax bill with an illegal tariff war without congressional consent that will make products more expensive and supplies difficult to locate, which in turn will slow economic growth while alienating our allies that have helped to keep America safer.
We will need all the foreign help we can get because Republicans proved with the 9/11 Twin Towers attack that they are not good at protecting Americans from foreign attackers.
In fact, the welfare of most Americans has never been a serious concern for Republicans, which is why Republican-run red states are the poorest states in the union that are most dependent on blue state financial aid.
Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell when asked about his thoughts on the program cuts in Trump’s terrible tax bill has said “They will get used to it.” And Iowa Senator Joni Earnst at a contentious town hall meeting defending the cuts in Medicaid and SNAP programs said, “We are all going to die.”
In acting like the convicted felon he is, Trump is disregarding laws and the constitution in a single-minded drive to make himself and his Oligarchs wealthier and working Americans poorer.
The passing of Trump’s terrible tax bill means Republicans care little for others and have picked a leader who only cares for himself.
Harlan Green © 2025
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