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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWith social program fights, some Republicans fear being seen as the party of the 1 percent
Source: Washington Post
With social program fights, some Republicans fear being seen as the party of the 1 percent
By Robert Costa and Mike DeBonis March 29 at 5:37 PM
President Trump boasted this week that the Republican Party will soon be known as the party of great health care.
But a growing number of Republicans fear that it risks being tagged as the party of the 1 percent instead handing Democrats a potent political message as the GOP pushes to gut former president Barack Obamas health-care law and other popular federal programs, including those that help the poor and those with disabilities.
A spate of policy moves in recent weeks by Republican lawmakers and Trump administration officials has driven the partys agenda hard to the right, giving new fodder to Democratic presidential candidates eager to shift the national debate to such issues as health care and jobs ahead of the 2020 election.
The administrations budget released earlier this month, for example, includes massive rollbacks of programs including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security Disability Insurance, as well as cuts to the Special Olympics, Meals on Wheels, and programs related to autism and other developmental disabilities.
Trump signaled his own misgivings about some of those cuts in recent days rescinding a proposal to zero out Special Olympics funding, which had sparked a bipartisan backlash, and promising to protect a cleanup program for the Great Lakes in states that could be crucial to his reelection.
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By Robert Costa and Mike DeBonis March 29 at 5:37 PM
President Trump boasted this week that the Republican Party will soon be known as the party of great health care.
But a growing number of Republicans fear that it risks being tagged as the party of the 1 percent instead handing Democrats a potent political message as the GOP pushes to gut former president Barack Obamas health-care law and other popular federal programs, including those that help the poor and those with disabilities.
A spate of policy moves in recent weeks by Republican lawmakers and Trump administration officials has driven the partys agenda hard to the right, giving new fodder to Democratic presidential candidates eager to shift the national debate to such issues as health care and jobs ahead of the 2020 election.
The administrations budget released earlier this month, for example, includes massive rollbacks of programs including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security Disability Insurance, as well as cuts to the Special Olympics, Meals on Wheels, and programs related to autism and other developmental disabilities.
Trump signaled his own misgivings about some of those cuts in recent days rescinding a proposal to zero out Special Olympics funding, which had sparked a bipartisan backlash, and promising to protect a cleanup program for the Great Lakes in states that could be crucial to his reelection.
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With social program fights, some Republicans fear being seen as the party of the 1 percent (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2019
OP
Absolutely. They still haven't justified or explained their so called tax cut and jobs bill of ...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2019
#7
Maybe they should have thought of that before they ran for office as GOPers
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2019
#4
The Republican party has been the party of the 1% for the last 40 years
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Mar 2019
#10
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)1. That ship has sailed
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,719 posts)2. Ya beat me to it! I was going to say: "Only some?"
elleng
(131,143 posts)6. and we have to REMIND them, EVERY DAY, in EVERY WAY!
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)7. Absolutely. They still haven't justified or explained their so called tax cut and jobs bill of ...
2017, where over 80% of the proceeds went to the uber wealthy in this country...not us.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)4. Maybe they should have thought of that before they ran for office as GOPers
and happily signed on to whatever bullshit emanated from Trump's White House.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)5. The party of the 1 percent? The deuce you say!
I mean, gee whiz, we only have evidence piled up from the last 40 years or so; let's not be hasty about tagging the Republicans with any pejoratives; not like those tax-and-spend, soft-on-defense, bleeding-heart Democrats.
JHB
(37,162 posts)8. Some Republicans fear their smokescreen of fog rising off mountain of bullshit...
...is getting thin.
Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)9. They made that bed...
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)10. The Republican party has been the party of the 1% for the last 40 years
They're only now seeing that as a problem?
ananda
(28,877 posts)11. You mean they're worried about the blind?
It's always been obvious to anyone who can see.