Exclusive: Trump cuts to hit rural America like "a tsunami," Democrat warns
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Rep. April McClain Delaney told Newsweek how cuts to programs like Medicaid, as well as NPR and PBS, will affect rural Americans.

Representative April McClain Delaney warned that Donald Trump’s cuts to programs like Medicaid, as well as NPR and PBS, are going to hit rural America like a “tsunami” in an interview with Newsweek.

Delaney’s Maryland congressional district contains some of the areas that could be hit hardest by Trump’s policies. It spans from the state’s rural western panhandle, which she says could bear the brunt of new rescission cuts, to the Washington, D.C., suburbs, home to federal workers who have lost their jobs amid the mass firings of federal workers.

“When you look at all of these funding freezes on our government employees on our national parks, but also Medicaid, SNAP, and then start looking at some of the other rescissions that it’s just a tsunami that’s about to hit rural America,” Delaney said.

    • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I live here in the rural South and I can say bring it on but sadly my rural brethren will not connect the dots.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        They can always blame it on something entirely incoherent, like too much “woke” still being around, or trans still existing, or too many “urbans” near them, or blame blue cities, or that their god is punishing them for gays getting married, or whatever the fuck.

        Or, like Taco, even as he actively does things to mess with a well-functioning system, he’ll blame the “terrible things” that Biden was allegedly doing to the economy, laugh the fuck out loud. Makes it even semi-plausible when some self-styled Enlightened Centrists go along with that bullshit, I guess…

    • xyzzy@lemmy.today
      8·
      2 days ago

      Many of these things are timed to take full effect after Trump’s term. Republicans in Congress expect the next president to be a Democrat and for that person to take all the heat if they do nothing to stop it, to have to raise taxes to offset the cuts, or to incur additional deficit spending. Republicans can campaign effectively against all three, and Republican voters will lap it up like hogs at the trough.