Ahead of Trump’s visit to Rochester, Minnesota today, the DFL Party is releasing the memo fact sheet below on how the Trump administration’s disastrous management of the coronavirus pandemic has failed Minnesotans.
FACT: Donald Trump’s failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic is leaving working families behind.
- Trump didn’t just fail to prepare for coronavirus: he abandoned states to face it alone. Minnesota has seen over 139,000 positive cases of COVID-19 and over 2,440 deaths.
- Over eight months since the pandemic came to the United States, and some frontline workers still struggle to get the PPE they need to work safely.
- Now, Trump’s White House admits they have given up on any plan to tackle the pandemic just as Minnesota is facing a record number of hospitalizations.
FACT: Donald Trump came to Minnesota in 2016 and promised he would stop jobs from leaving Minnesota, but in reality his failed leadership has led to a devastating economic crisis.
- Trump promised Minnesota farmers that he’d be a champion for them, but he’s repeatedly proposed slashing programs that are vital to rural Minnesota.
- Donald Trump’s massively unpopular tax giveaway to billionaires included incentives for American companies to ship jobs overseas, including no taxes on many profits generated in foreign countries.
- His failed trade policies have cost Minnesota businesses over $700 million.
FACT: Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked protections for people with pre-existing conditions and his threats to Social Security jeopardize benefits serving over 1 million Minnesotans.
- In 2019, Social Security programs directly served over 1 million Minnesotans. According to the Urban Institute, the number of people uninsured in Minnesota would increase by 265,000, or 80 percent, under repeal of ACA compared to the current law. As many as 2,318,738 people with pre-existing conditions in Minnesota could have been denied coverage before the ACA went into effect. If Trump succeeds in rolling back the ACA, these Minnesotans would be left vulnerable again.