{"id":1048306,"date":"2024-09-25T18:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T22:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048306"},"modified":"2024-09-25T18:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T22:40:58","slug":"trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-would-put-the-ultra-wealthy-over-michigan-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-would-put-the-ultra-wealthy-over-michigan-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Vance Project 2025 Agenda Would Put the Ultra-Wealthy Over Michigan Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As JD Vance travels to Michigan today, <\/em>DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump gave tax handouts to the ultra-rich at the expense of working families, shuttered factories across the Midwest, backed billionaires attacking organized labor, and left office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover \u2013 and JD Vance stood behind it all. Now, the Trump-Vance ticket is pushing a Project 2025 agenda to double down on these failed policies with an extreme anti-union blueprint that would let Trump put hardworking Michiganders last if he gets the chance. Voters are sick of the Trump-Vance ticket\u2019s extremism and broken promises, and are ready to cast their ballot for Vice President Harris and Governor Walz\u2019s pro-worker economy that will always put hardworking families first.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance is proud to stand by Donald Trump, whose disastrous record includes offshored jobs, shuttered factories, and manufacturing job losses in Michigan and across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal Economic Data<\/a>: Michiganders lost 31,000 manufacturing jobs over the course of Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MLive<\/a>: \u201cOn the 2016 campaign trail in Warren, Trump pledged \u2018you won\u2019t lose one plant\u2019 if he were elected. GM announced last year it would end production at five North American plants.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump told GM workers he could save their plant, but it\u2019s gone for good\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe President cast himself in 2016 as a savior for workers<\/strong>, taking the unusual tack of publicly pressuring corporations like Carrier into changing their plans for moving or changing production. But despite months of demands, Trump has been unable to get GM to keep jobs at Lordstown.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cManufacturing activity in September [of 2019] fell to its lowest point in a decade. The Rust Belt states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, which Trump flipped, have all lost manufacturing jobs since June. Many of those jobs have moved overseas.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wall Street Journal<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s trade war against China didn\u2019t achieve the central objective of reversing a U.S. decline in manufacturing,<\/strong> economic data show, despite tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods to discourage imports.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detroit Free Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump, tweets couldn’t save U.S. auto jobs in 2017\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cAfter Years of Growth, Automakers Are Cutting U.S. Jobs\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cThe Offshoring of U.S. Jobs Increased on Trump\u2019s Watch\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>: When Trump left office, there were over 170,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than when he started.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like Trump \u2014 who <\/strong>was one of the most anti-worker and anti-union presidents in American history \u2014 Vance stands firmly against working people and has opposed legislation that protects unions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI know the unions. They\u2019re dues-sucking people. They just want their dues and they couldn\u2019t care less.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cDoes [Trump] support unions? He has had \u2018great success\u2019 in New York building with unions and also in Florida without unions. \u2018If I had my choice,\u2019 he said, \u2018I think I\u2019d take it without.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cDuring Trump\u2019s presidency, the National Labor Relations Board reversed several key rulings that made it easier for small unions to organize, strengthened the bargaining rights of franchise workers and provided protection against anti-union measures for employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s conservative majority \u2014 including three justices that Trump nominated \u2014 overturned a decades-old pro-union decision in 2018 involving fees paid by government workers. The justices in 2021 rejected a California regulation giving unions access to farm property so they could organize workers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cVance has consistently opposed the PRO Act, the \u2018holy grail of pro-union labor reform\u2019 that organized labor and its allies on the Hill have been fighting for over two years to get passed. \u2026 Vance\u2019s skepticism of the PRO Act is part of a more fundamental skepticism that he harbors toward organized labor.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast Company<\/a>: \u201cVance also voted in favor of a resolution to strike down the NLRB\u2019s updated joint-employer rule, which would have given workers more leverage when organizing at companies<\/strong>\u2014like Amazon\u2014that rely heavily on third-party contractors, by forcing both employers to participate in labor negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance has praised Trump\u2019s MAGAnomics tax handout to the ultra-wealthy, which left working families behind while skyrocketing the deficit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cThe left attacked Donald Trump for those tax cuts said they would make the deficit worse<\/strong> when in reality we took in more revenue because the government got out of the way on the regulatory side and the tax cuts spurred a lot of growth which means more people working, which meant more economic production which meant the entire economy was healthier\u2026 I think we have a pretty common sense regulatory and tax agenda.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe 2017 corporate tax cuts signed into law by Mr. Trump have not increased government revenue \u2026 In fact, they have had the opposite effect.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cFor the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cTwo years after Trump tax cuts, middle-class Americans are falling behind\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cThey were billed as a \u2018middle-class miracle\u2019 but according to a new book Donald 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

Washington Post Analysis<\/a>: \u201cOne of President Donald Trump\u2019s lesser-known but profoundly damaging legacies will be the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch.<\/strong> The financial burden that he\u2019s inflicted on our government will wreak havoc for decades, saddling our kids and grandkids with debt. The national debt has risen by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump\u2019s time in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration, according to a calculation by Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump promised \u2018America First\u2019 would keep jobs here. But the tax plan might push them overseas.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the Trump-Vance ticket wants to enact their extreme and expensive Project 2025 agenda that would rig the economy for the ultra-rich (again) and risk supercharging inflation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a> on Trump\u2019s plan that would raise tariffs and raise costs for hardworking Americans: \u201cThis is a fascinating proposal and we could talk for a while about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cYou\u2019re all people that have a lot of money\u2026 You\u2019re rich as hell.\u2026 We\u2019re gonna give you tax cuts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanity Fair<\/a>: \u201cDonald <\/strong>Trump <\/strong>Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term: Report\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cSixteen Nobel prize-winning economists are jumping into the presidential campaign with a stark warning: Former President Trump\u2019s plans would reignite inflation and cause lasting harm to the global economy if he wins in November.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cTrump\u2019s Plan to Supercharge Inflation\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As JD Vance travels to Michigan today, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:  \u201cDonald Trump gave tax handouts to the ultra-rich at the expense of working families, shuttered factories across the Midwest, backed billionaires attacking organized labor, and left office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover \u2013 and JD Vance stood […]<\/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-1048306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump-Vance Project 2025 Agenda Would Put the Ultra-Wealthy Over Michigan Workers - 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\/trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-would-put-the-ultra-wealthy-over-michigan-workers\/\" \/>\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=\"2024-09-25T22:33:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-25T22:40:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?w=1024\" \/>\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=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-would-put-the-ultra-wealthy-over-michigan-workers\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-vance-project-2025-agenda-would-put-the-ultra-wealthy-over-michigan-workers\/\",\"name\":\"Trump-Vance Project 2025 Agenda Would Put the Ultra-Wealthy Over Michigan Workers - 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