Matt McDermott
Democratic Pollster & Strategist • Senior Vice President @ Whitman Insight Strategies • LGBTQ+ Victory Fund Board
- Really can’t get over the fact that Trump is trying to score a $400 million luxury jet for himself on the same day his party announces a budget that’d rip health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.
- While America slept, House Republicans quietly unveiled their Medicaid plan. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it strips health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.
- For those confused by the China tariff news: • Trump caved and got zero in return • No manufacturing moved back to the USA • 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans • 90 day pause still causes uncertainty • Trump lost all negotiating leverage
- In the past week, Trump has now announced trade ‘deals’ with both the UK and China — except there are no deals. Just early stage talks and nothing finalized. Maybe the press can stop repeating White House spin as fact.
- Another day — another outage at Newark. It turns out that putting a Fox News talking head in charge of America’s transportation system leads to total dysfunction and dangerous incompetence.
- To recap: while American families saw baby car seat prices skyrocket +61% in recent weeks, Trump was busy finalizing the terms of a luxury jet bribe from the Qatari royal family.
- Literally speechless: ABC reports Trump will accept a luxury jet from Qatar to be used as Air Force One, then transferred to his presidential library for personal use. A foreign regime gifting a jet to a former president. It’s bribery in broad daylight.
- Twitter is flooded with small businesses getting their post-tariff shipments and realizing the crippling cost impacts. Really don’t think most Americans are fully grasping the price increases that will start to be felt in the coming weeks.
- Glad Republicans finally gave up trying to block Allison Riggs from taking her rightful seat on the NC Supreme Court. But let’s be clear: they tried to overturn a fair election — and almost got away with it, with barely a blip in the national press.
- There it is: as Democrats have warned, new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that each GOP proposal to cut Medicaid will lead to millions of Americans losing health insurance coverage.
