New analysis says Trump budget plan will take from poorest 40 percent to give to wealthy
An analysis by Yale University has found that a budget plan being considered by Republican lawmakers would ultimately transfer wealth from the poorest 40 percent of Americans to the richest 1 percent.
Researchers Harris Eppsteiner and John Ricco of Yale's Budget Lab found that the proposed GOP budget whose framework was supported last month in a vote by the House would include $4.5 trillion in tax cuts that would largely benefit the wealthy, along with $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, including to benefits for the public, including the poorest.
Three graphs explain what’s happening with Donald Trump’s popularity
One problem in analysing these statistics is that only 29% of the sample interviewed were Republicans, compared with 34% Democrats. The pollsters do their best to get a representative sample of the US electorate and it’s worth noting that there are currently more registered Democrats in the US than there are Republicans.
Interestingly, the American National Election Study survey conducted just before the presidential election last year showed that only 11.6% of Americans were supporters of the Maga movement. This highly respected study, which has been carried out over the past 75 years as a national resource, would suggest that Maga supporters are noisy, but fewer in number than some people might realise.
Sherrod Brown keeps Democrats on their toes in Ohio
Brown has sent mixed signals on his political future.
Just more than a week after the election, he told Politico he wasn’t “ruling anything out” in response to a question about whether he would run to fill the rest of Vance’s term. If he runs, he would likely face Sen. Jon Husted (R), the former lieutenant governor of Ohio, whom Gov. Mike DeWine (R) chose as Vance’s replacement.
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