Matt Schlosser
This week marked the one year anniversary of Trump’s second inauguration. A lot has changed over the past year, but has your life improved for the better? Do you feel safer? Wealthier? Prouder? More hopeful?
Not passing a budget is a choice– it’s a choice to underfund our schools. It’s a choice to threaten people’s health care. It’s a choice to sit still while everyday people are fighting tooth and nail just to make ends meet.
There’s little certainty around the future of Venezuela, but what’s clear is that Big Oil appears to be calling the shots for the White House, and everyday Americans will be left paying the price.
North Carolina was ranked dead last in its effort to fund public schools. And if that’s not embarrassing enough, we were also ranked second-to-last in per-student funding (in case you’re curious, we came in just ahead of Idaho).
Maybe more frustrating than the GOP economy is how they’ve been trying to sell us on it. Here’s five quotes from the President that show how out of touch Republican leadership is with the economy they’ve created.
For however cruel and violent federal agents have been this week, North Carolinians have responded tenfold with love, care, and compassion. North Carolinians met the moment and stepped up to support one another, marching in protests, documenting encounters, guarding carpool lines, and protecting their neighbors.
In 15 months, North Carolina has eliminated $6.5 billion in debt for 2.5 million people. This is what effective leadership looks like– delivering meaningful results for everyday people.
North Carolinians have endured one punch after another this year. And that’s why Tuesday’s response by the voters was so, so uplifting. Voters in every corner of the state stood up and said “we’re done”– done with higher costs, done with leaders who embolden authoritarians, done with politicians who don’t listen to their constituents.
In the eleventh hour, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue funding SNAP. But as of now, it’s unclear if the Trump administration will follow the court order or appeal the ruling– leaving the program in limbo.
For the fifth time in six years, we have new Congressional maps in North Carolina. Republicans have turned what was meant to be a once-a-decade process to account for new Census figures into their bludgeon for molding elections to go their way.