By: Chris Owens and Samantha Sanders From day one, the Trump administration and Elon Musk have unleashed an unprecedented assault on the federal workforce. Recently, this has included announcing intentions to cut 15% of U.S.-based State Department staff, 10,000 jobs in the nation’s health care agencies, 80,000 Veterans Affairs positions, 7,000 in the Social Security …
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A second Trump term would increase health care costs for working families
Key findings: U.S. politics have recently become so chaotic and personality-driven that it’s easy to forget the long-running and high-stakes differences in how conservatives and progressives approach key policy debates. One of the starkest differences is their approach to health care. The conservative prescription for health care is increasing health care users’ “skin in the …
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Trump’s claim that he would exempt overtime from taxes is deeply unserious
Donald Trump’s cynical new claim that he would exempt overtime from taxes is a sham. Trump has a long anti-overtime record. While president, he stripped overtime protections from millions by refusing to defend the Obama-era overtime rule in court and instead publishing his own, much weaker rule. Further, Project 2025, which provides a roadmap for …
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Project 2025 would strip federal overtime protections from at least 8 million workers
“The overtime provisions in Project 2025 comprise a profoundly anti-overtime agenda that will mean millions will be working more for less.” See the impact by state and demographics U.S. law requires that most workers receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. This is a fundamental employment standard that helps …
The Trump agenda would drive prices higher
In 2016, claims that the incoming Trump administration policy agenda would raise inflation were wrong. That is no longer the case.