{"id":1036146,"date":"2024-06-19T16:33:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1036146"},"modified":"2024-06-19T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T16:33:34","slug":"trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-cant-cover-for-trumps-record-of-failing-black-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-cant-cover-for-trumps-record-of-failing-black-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s MAGA Veepstakes: VP Contenders Can\u2019t Cover for Trump\u2019s Record of Failing Black Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As Donald Trump\u2019s VP contenders continue to support his record of failing Black communities, <\/em>DNC Senior Spokesperson Marcus W. Robinson released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump and his potential running mates are desperately trying to cover for his failed record and broken promises to Black Americans, but Black voters see through their lies and desperate spin. Trump\u2019s VP contenders all share the same extreme records of supporting Trump\u2019s out-of-touch MAGA agenda that puts Black communities last, from whitewashing history to rigging the economy for the ultra-wealthy at the expense of working and middle-class Black Americans. In November, Trump and whichever MAGA minion he picks as his running mate will be held accountable for their disastrous agenda that would disproportionately leave behind Black communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s VP contenders have praised his MAGAnomics tax scam and supported Trump\u2019s push to make it permanent\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Scott<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cWe make the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act tax cuts permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug Burgum<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cI believe in these economic policies, I believe the tax bill is a great thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marco Rubio<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cOverall, the Republican tax-cut bill has been good for Americans. That is why I voted for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Cotton<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cTrump’s tax cuts helped deliver the strongest economy in recent history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNBC<\/a>: \u201cBen Carson<\/strong> leads prayer for tax cuts at Trump Cabinet meeting\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KOTA<\/a>: \u201cRepublicans are calling President Trump\u2019s tax plan the biggest tax overhaul in history. \u2026 Representative Kris[ti] Noem<\/strong> was a big part in pushing this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox Business<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s tax policies have worked out for all of America: Rep. Byron Donalds<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivek Ramaswamy<\/strong><\/a> on a suggestion to make permanent or expand the Trump tax cuts: \u201cI\u2019d go a little further, Larry, than that, to be honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alabama Political Reporter<\/a>: \u201cKatie Britt<\/strong> on Monday released a memo with her policy positions \u2026 [including] a bill to make permanent the individual tax cuts and extend the expanded standard deduction contained in President Trump\u2019s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. \u2026 a pro-growth tax reform bill reducing business tax rates, repealing the Death Tax, and making the expensing of capital assets permanent. \u2026 a bill to repeal the state and local tax deduction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wesley Hunt<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cI supported the 2017 Tax Reform bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 even though Trump\u2019s tax giveaways for the ultra-wealthy, attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and pushes to gut affordable housing programs disproportionately left behind and threatened Black communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cWhite Americans Gain the Most From Trump\u2019s Tax Cuts, a Report Finds\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a result, the average tax cut going to a white American household is more than double one going to a black or Latino one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhite Americans earn about 77 percent of total income in the United States, but they are getting nearly 80 percent of the benefits of the individual and business tax cuts generated by the new law, the analysis found. African Americans received about 5 percent of the benefits, despite earning 6 percent of the nation\u2019s income.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF<\/a>: The number of uninsured Black Americans increased by nearly 300,000 during the first two years of Trump\u2019s administration, which marked the first increase in the Black uninsured rate since 2013.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe Tax Break for Children, Except the Ones Who Need It Most\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile Republicans say the increase shows concern for ordinary families, 35 percent of children fail to receive the full $2,000 because their parents earn too little, researchers at Columbia University found. A quarter get a partial sum and 10 percent get nothing. Among those excluded from the full credit are half of Latinos, 53 percent of [B]lacks and 70 percent of children with single mothers [\u2026]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy enriching the credit and including the affluent, the Trump expansion itself has brought attention to the poor children it excludes. While the 2017 law made millions of upper-income families eligible for the $2,000 credit (in part to offset the loss of other tax benefits), it gave a boost of just $75 to most full-time workers at the minimum wage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cOverall, Trump\u2019s budget would cut $8.6 billion from housing programs, a 15 percent reduction. Deeper cuts, to the tune of 43 percent, would hit public housing funds while also eliminating programs such as the National Housing Trust Fund, Home Investment Partnerships, Community Development Block Grant and Choice Neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration will introduce a new rule on Monday that may reshape the way the government enforces fair housing law, making it harder for people to bring forward discrimination complaints under the Fair Housing Act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump worked with VP contender Tim Scott on an Opportunity Zones initiative that gave tax breaks to wealthy real estate developers while largely leaving out to dry the small businesses and low-income communities it was supposed to help. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PBS Newshour<\/a>: \u201cTrump-era Opportunity Zones meant to help low-income communities exploited by investors\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cA Trump Tax Break Is Not Spurring Job Creation, Study Finds\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA new tax break that President Trump frequently touts as a boon to black Americans and hard-hit communities is spurring relatively little job creation while disproportionately helping high-profit real estate projects and not small businesses, an extensive new study by the Urban Institute has found.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes<\/a>: \u201cTrump Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay Less Taxes Than The Working Class In 2018\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s $1.5tn tax cuts have helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, VP contender Byron Donalds has been tripling down on his suggestion that Black Americans were better off under Jim Crow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cByron Donalds, Trump V.P. Contender, Suggests Jim Crow Era Had an Upside\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Republic<\/a>: \u201cByron Donalds Cannot Stop Praising the Jim Crow Era\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cRep. Byron Donalds defends comments about Jim Crow\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>: \u201cAt another point, Donalds said he is starting to see the \u2018reinvigoration of Black family,\u2019 which he described as younger people forming nuclear family units and \u2018helping to breathe the revival of a Black middle class in America.\u2019 He went on to say that those family values had previously been eroded by Democratic policies that Black voters embraced after becoming loyal to the party due to the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative \u2014 Black people have always been conservative-minded \u2014 but more Black people voted conservatively,\u2019<\/strong> he said. \u2018And then H.E.W., Lyndon Johnson \u2014 you go down that road, and now we are where we are,\u2019 he added, referring to the former U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Donald Trump\u2019s VP contenders continue to support his record of failing Black communities, DNC Senior Spokesperson Marcus W. Robinson released the following statement:  \u201cDonald Trump and his potential running mates are desperately trying to cover for his failed record and broken promises to Black Americans, but Black voters see through their lies and desperate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s MAGA Veepstakes: VP Contenders Can\u2019t Cover for Trump\u2019s Record of Failing Black Communities - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-cant-cover-for-trumps-record-of-failing-black-communities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-19T16:33:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-19T16:33:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.png?w=780\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-cant-cover-for-trumps-record-of-failing-black-communities\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trumps-maga-veepstakes-vp-contenders-cant-cover-for-trumps-record-of-failing-black-communities\/\",\"name\":\"Trump\u2019s MAGA Veepstakes: VP Contenders Can\u2019t Cover for Trump\u2019s Record of Failing Black Communities - 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