{"id":1048508,"date":"2024-10-02T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048508"},"modified":"2024-10-02T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:21:30","slug":"native-communities-cant-afford-a-second-trump-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/native-communities-cant-afford-a-second-trump-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Communities Can\u2019t Afford a Second Trump Term\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DNC Director of Outreach Communications Tracy King released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis election is about two drastically different visions for America: the Harris-Walz vision of a new way forward for our country where all Native people have the opportunity to not just get by, but to get ahead, versus the Trump-Vance plan to drag our country backward. The Biden-Harris administration has fought for Tribal Nations and Tribal communities through historic investments to improve Tribal health care, public safety, language preservation, and education, close the digital divide, expand economic opportunities, and address the impacts of climate change on Tribal communities. On the other hand, Donald Trump and JD Vance have failed Native communities, proposing cuts to critical services, undermining federal Tribal land protections and efforts to address the climate crisis, and spewing hateful rhetoric. The contrast couldn\u2019t be clearer: Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are the only candidates in this race championing the rights of Native communities and taking steps to advance Tribal sovereignty and self-determination.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump and JD Vance have repeatedly attacked the ACA, which helped expand coverage for and meet the health needs of Native Americans, and a judge found Trump\u2019s administration caused \u201cirreparable harm\u201d by delaying COVID-19 relief funds for Tribes. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cTrump doubles down, saying \u2018Obamacare Sucks\u2019 and must be replaced\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTUS<\/a>: \u201cVance suggested overhauling Obamacare would still be a priority. \u2018Well, I think we\u2019re definitely gonna have to fix the health care problem in this country,\u2019 he said.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration formally declared its opposition to the entire Affordable Care Act<\/strong> on Wednesday, arguing in a federal appeals court filing that the signature Obama-era legislation was unconstitutional and should be struck down. Such a decision could end health insurance for some 21 million Americans and affect many millions more who benefit from the law\u2019s protections<\/strong> for people with pre-existing medical conditions and required coverage for pregnancy, prescription drugs and mental health.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/a>: \u201cDespite the assurance of health care, AI\/ANs face persistent health disparities, including a high uninsurance rate, barriers to accessing care, and significant physical and mental health needs. Like many other groups, AI\/ANs have benefited greatly from the Affordable Care Act\u2019s (ACA) coverage expansions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a>: \u201cNonelderly AIAN and Hispanic people had the highest uninsured rates at 19.1% and 18.0%, respectively as of 2022\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor example, between 2010 and 2022, the uninsured rate for AIAN people grew from 2.5 to 2.9 times higher than the uninsured rate for White people<\/strong>, the Hispanic uninsured rate grew from 2.5 to 2.7 times higher than the rate for White people, and Black people remained 1.5 times more likely to be uninsured than White people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a>: \u200b\u200b<\/strong>\u201cFollowing the ACA\u2019s enactment in 2010 through 2016, coverage increased across all racial and ethnic groups […] Nonelderly Hispanic people had the largest percentage point increase in coverage, with their uninsured rate falling from 32.6% to 19.1%. Nonelderly Black, Asian, and AIAN people also had larger percentage point increases in coverage compared to White people over that period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA Today<\/a>: \u201cNative Americans, Alaska Natives and a bipartisan group of their allies are worried that repeal of the Affordable Care Act will also eliminate a non-controversial portion of that law that commits federal funding for tribal health care around the country, a move that the National Indian Health Board warns would be \u2018catastrophic.\u2019 \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe law also provides scholarships to Native Americans and Alaska Natives to get medical degrees if they come back and work in their tribes.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cJudge Orders Trump Administration To Give Tribes Their COVID-19 Relief Funds.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA federal judge on Monday ordered Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to distribute $679 million in emergency COVID-19 relief funds to Native American tribes that should have gotten it months ago, and he chided the agency for causing \u2018irreparable harm\u2019 <\/strong>with its delays.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump repeatedly proposed slashing funding for vital programs supporting Native Americans on issues like education and housing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTribes Bash Proposed Trump Budget Cuts To Native American Programs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proposed budget would slash $64 million in federal Native American funding for education, $21 million for law enforcement and safety, $27 million for natural resources management programs run by tribes plus $23 million from human services, which includes the Indian Child Welfare Act, said Carina Miller, a councilwoman with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, in Oregon. It would also eliminate funding for tribal work on climate change and cut block grant programs that provide housing assistance for Native Americans, she added.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Las Vegas Sun<\/a>: \u201cThe budget calls for massive cutbacks in staffing \u2014 1,835 National Parks Service employees, 1,209 from the U.S. Geological Survey, 559 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 330 from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cShrink funding for Adult Employment and Training Activities, which serve veterans, Native Americans and young people who have dropped out of high school, by nearly half, from $810 million in 2017 to $490.3 million in 2019.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cThe Budget proposes to eliminate rural business and cooperative programs given findings that the programs have failed to meet the program goals and are improperly managed.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has repeatedly shown his willingness to undermine federal Tribal land protections and revoke funding for programs that address climate change despite the significant risk it poses to Tribal communities. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cDozens of Native American tribes in six Western states expressed outrage Thursday at President Trump\u2019s proposed budget cuts to American Indian programs, saying they would erase significant progress on child welfare and climate change and gut social services and education on reservations across the U.S\u2026 Eliminating $10 million for a program that helps tribes prepare for and deal with rapid environmental change would be particularly harmful, said Fawn Sharp, president of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cDispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Financial Times<\/a>: \u201cDonald Trump would gut Joe Biden\u2019s landmark IRA climate law if elected\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump is planning to gut US President Joe Biden\u2019s landmark climate law, increase investment in fossil fuels and roll back regulations aimed at accelerating the transition to electric vehicles if he is elected next year. \u2026 The Inflation Reduction Act \u2014 the centrepiece of Biden\u2019s economic strategy, with $369bn in tax breaks and subsidies for clean energy \u2014 would be in Trump\u2019s crosshairs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cIn 2016, President Barack Obama created the Bears Ears National Monument […] His proclamation recognized the area\u2019s \u2018extraordinary archaeological and cultural record\u2019 and the land\u2019s \u2018profoundly sacred\u2019 meaning to many Native American tribes. Eleven months later, in early December of 2017, President Trump reduced Bears Ears by 85 percent\u2026\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cThe amount of land placed into trust by Interior shrunk to 75,000 acres during Trump\u2019s four years in office, from 560,000 acres during former President Obama\u2019s two terms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cThe rule, which takes effect in November, reverses a Trump-era action that limited the ability of states and tribes to review pipelines, dams and other federally regulated projects within their borders.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cTrump will discuss the ways he intends to woo foreign manufacturers to the US through a lower corporate tax rate, fewer regulations, cheap energy, strong ports and even government land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda would eliminate the Head Start Program after he tried in his first term to cut millions in scholarship funding meant to help ensure Native families have access to quality education. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KNAU<\/a>: \u201cTrump Administration Proposes Eliminating Tribal Scholarships For Third Year In A Row.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe administration\u2019s fiscal year 2020 budget would slash nearly $40 million from tribal scholarship and education programs administered by the Bureau of Indian Education\u2026 [Navajo Office of Scholarship and Financial Assistance\u2019s] Graham says in 2017 nearly $10 million in federal funding went to partial scholarships for nearly 4,000 Navajo students. The Trump administration\u2019s proposal would eliminate all of it. Just over 4 percent of Navajo tribal members have a bachelor\u2019s degree compared with about a third of the total U.S. population.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project 2025\u2019s Mandate for Leadership, pg. 482<\/a>: \u201cEliminate the Head Start program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Trump and JD Vance have long disrespected Native Americans, from claiming Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day is a \u201cfake holiday\u201d and mocking Native American history to spewing racially charged rhetoric. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Faith and Freedom Conference<\/a>: \u201cBut in history, they say Andrew Jackson was treated the worst president. He was a great general and a very good president.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201c\u2018I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cIn 2000, when New York was considering expanding Native American casinos in the Catskill Mountains, a series of TV, newspaper and radio ads popped up in the state accusing the Mohawk Indian tribe of having long criminal records and ties to the mob\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as the public knew, the ads were sponsored by a newly formed group called the Institute for Law and Safety. The group claimed that it was funded by 12,000 \u2018grass-roots, pro-family\u2019 donors. But in reality, it was bankrolled by Trump\u2019s casino company\u2026 Trump paid more than $1 million for the campaign.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cOne hundred years after U.S. soldiers killed and maimed hundreds of Sioux men, women and children at the Wounded Knee massacre, Congress formally apologized in 1990\u2026 President Trump used that same massacre as a punchline in his latest broadside against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the Democratic presidential hopeful whom he regularly calls \u2018Pocahontas\u2019 in jeering reference to her claims of American Indian heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indianz<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump Disavows Indigenous Peoples Day\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Sadly, in recent years, radical activists have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus\u2019s legacy,\u2019 Trump said in his proclamation declaring Monday Columbus Day. \u2018These extremists seek to replace discussion of his vast contributions with talk of failings, his discoveries with atrocities, and his achievements with transgressions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. News & World Report<\/a>: \u201cPresident Donald Trump’s proclamation of Monday as Columbus Day contains a notable omission: any mention of Native Americans.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cNovember Is Native American Heritage Month. Critics Say Trump Is Subverting It With A New Celebration Of The Founding Fathers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>: \u201cIn Ohio, JD Vance Implied Tribes Were \u2018Enemy,\u2019 And Called Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day \u2018Fake\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>: \u201cVance also made comments on social media disparaging the celebration of Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day […] He posted on Twitter in October 2021 \u2018Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day is a fake holiday created to sow division.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breitbart<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Criticizes Opponent Matt Dolan For Indians Name Change, Rails Against \u2018Weak Republicans\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018And when the woke mob came after the Cleveland Indians, he bent the knee and changed their name,\u2019<\/strong> Vance added.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DNC Director of Outreach Communications Tracy King released the following statement:  \u201cThis election is about two drastically different visions for America: the Harris-Walz vision of a new way forward for our country where all Native people have the opportunity to not just get by, but to get ahead, versus the Trump-Vance plan to drag our […]<\/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-1048508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNative Communities Can\u2019t Afford a Second Trump Term\u00a0 - 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\/native-communities-cant-afford-a-second-trump-term\/\" \/>\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=\"2024-10-02T18:21:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-02T18:21:30+00:00\" \/>\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=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/native-communities-cant-afford-a-second-trump-term\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/native-communities-cant-afford-a-second-trump-term\/\",\"name\":\"Native Communities Can\u2019t Afford a Second Trump Term\u00a0 - 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