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  Friends, it’s Ed. I have some personal thoughts that I want to share with you today. I hope you’ll read to the end. Donald Trump and the Republicans' victory on election night last year was an obvious disaster for our nation. But what really made that night such a great disappointment for me was seeing Democrats  lose a good deal of support from working-class Americans. For decades, Democrats have been the party of the workers. We’re the party of FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society. We created and passed Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, national union rights, worker protections, and much more. We’ve helped create millions of good-paying jobs. We’ve built roads, bridges, railways, dams, power stations, and more all across the country. We’ve stood up to the mega-corporations that make Americans work longer hours for lower wages. Republicans, on the other hand, are the party of Reagan, Bush, and Trump. Their legacy is one of slashing the programs that Americans rely on, ...

The Three Huge Lies Trump is Telling Republican Senators about his Medicaid Cuts — to finance a big tax cut mostly for the wealthy Robert Reich Jun 3 Friends, Trump is busily working the Senate this week in an effort to get his Big Ugly Bill across the finish line. Given the Republican’s close margin in the Senate, he can afford to lose only three Republican senators. But Republican senators don’t like the idea of cutting Medicaid — many of their constituents depend on it — and they’re balking at the huge deficit-busting price tag (which, of course, includes a giant tax cut mostly for the wealthy). I think what Senate Republicans are most afraid of is the way this will  look  to the average American — a Republican reverse Robin-Hood strategy of taking from the poor and working class (mostly in Medicaid cuts but also Food Stamps and other programs they depend on) in order to finance a tax cut for the rich, while  still  busting the budget. In essence, then, the que...