Donald Trump Republicans continues to harm with policies hurting the poor and working class

The administration of Republican Donald Trump seems like a plot against the poor and people who work for a living.

Echo opinion letter published in the News-Gazette Champaign-Urbana Danville and East Central Illinois

It is, of course, but is also something much simpler — a racket. 

As always, the policies are about Trump and the world’s wealthiest people in his inner circle making billions 💲 more than they already have.

The timing on artificial-intelligence measures and the bitcoin scam were meant to maximize Elon Musk’s and Trump’s profits, and they did. When a crony is caught, Republicans simply close the investigation or Trump pardons the criminal. The recent budget bill, passed by one vote, cuts Medicaid and other programs intended to help the poor.

The Republicans aim to gut higher education and end much of the medical and scientific research in the U.S. Trump’s plan for the slaughter in Gaza is simply to evict the desperate survivors and build a luxury resort complex on the rubble and bones.

In the meantime, control of the purse has passed from our elected representatives to yet another billionaire and some computer hackers who seem to have access to our personal data. This group decides which government agency gets demolished and how many thousand government servants are unemployed. The attacks on our main trading partners are raising prices, arbitrarily issuing tariff taxes, just as the last administration brought inflation under control.

We have jettisoned our lifelong allies for the king’s favorite authoritarians. It’s all like a bad joke, but it isn’t funny. It is unvarnished greed with a bit of fascism thrown in.

From Jim Barrett in Champaign Illinois