Tag: joint speech

Promises

The following article was posted on the TrumpAccountable.org website March 1, 2017:

On Tuesday evening President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress and promised. It’s notoriously difficult to hold elected officials to promises made on the campaign trail: rhetoric is heated, they fight for news coverage, and traditionally candidates over-promise to get elected. But these are promises from a sitting president who now is beginning to understand the complexities of the issues facing the country. Among his most aggressive promises were:

  • a “big, big, [tax] cut” for business along with “massive tax relief for the middle class”
  • a “better healthcare system” that will include coverage for pre-existing conditions and reduced costs for prescription drugs
  • a one trillion dollar investment in infrastructure financed through public and private sources
  • a budget that includes “one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history”

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4 Things You Need to Understand About Trump’s Speech

The following article by Jeremy Slevin, Harry Stein and Rebecca Vallas was posted on the Center for American Progress website March 1, 2017:

While he campaigned on a promise to help working families, President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress are now plotting to destroy many of the programs that enable families to maintain basic living standards and get ahead. Last night, President Trump proposed what he called “one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.” What he failed to mention is that he would also enact one of the largest cuts to domestic and international affairs programs in history. In fact, Trump would slash $54 billion in investments that help low-income and middle-class families—all while massively increasing the Pentagon budget and pursuing huge tax cuts for millionaires and big corporations.

While Trump was characteristically vague about how he would accomplish these goals, any cuts of this scale would lead to massive hardship for the very working class Americans Trump claims to represent. Continue reading “4 Things You Need to Understand About Trump’s Speech”