Dear Editor,
Trump is promising to drag us back to his failed economic policies. The one major piece of legislation that he signed as president was a massive tax cut that overwhelmingly benefited millionaires, billionaires, and large corporations. All this did was explode the deficit. Now, he’s proposing even bigger tax cuts for those at the top with the same empty promise that the benefits will trickle down to the rest of us. This just does not work. Three decades of a shrinking middle class have taught us that.
When it comes to tackling health care costs for everyday people, Trump has no actual solutions. In 2016, he campaigned on repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with his own “beautiful” healthcare plan. Of course there was no plan, but he still tried to repeal the ACA anyway.
Medicare’s new ability to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for seniors, established through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), will be transformative for millions. Currently, there is a cap on insulin and 10 other drugs. American taxpayers are expected to save $6 billion on prescription drug costs and people enrolled in Medicare are expected to save $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs in 2026 alone. The Republican Project 2025’s plan is to specifically instruct Congress to repeal this part of the IRA so that there will be no future negotiations. And, by the way, Trump’s denial of any connection to Project 2025 can be easily fact checked as just plain false.
B. Gilkison, B. Hamilton, C. Hamilton