{"id":1053055,"date":"2025-05-30T17:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053055"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:04:38","slug":"republicans-are-rebranding-a-train-system-while-their-constituents-cant-afford-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/republicans-are-rebranding-a-train-system-while-their-constituents-cant-afford-medical-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Are Rebranding a Train System While Their Constituents Can\u2019t Afford Medical Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After House Republicans passed sweeping cuts to health care and food assistance for millions of Americans, GOP Rep. Greg Steube introduced a bill to rename the Washington DC Metro the \u201cTrump Train.\u201d This is just the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emilybrooksnews\/status\/1928147460494413860?s=46&amp;t=xm-twpB0gxygAStckNc2bA\">latest example<\/a> of congressional Republicans\u2019 humiliating attempts to curry favor with Donald Trump while their approval ratings sink with their own constituents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s a <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emilybrooksnews\/status\/1928147460494413860?s=46&amp;t=xm-twpB0gxygAStckNc2bA\"><strong>list<\/strong><\/a><strong> of House Republicans\u2019 bizarre bills sucking up to Trump:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rename the DC metro to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/05\/29\/trump-train-dc-metro\/83923837007\/\">\u201cTrump Train\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make Trump\u2019s birthday a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/18\/trump-birthday-holiday-republican-bill\">federal holiday<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/01\/29\/trump-mount-rushmore-house-bill\">Carve<\/a> Trump onto Mount Rushmore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Change the name of Greenland to <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/the-most-sycophantic-things-the-gop-has-done-under-trump.html\">\u201cRed, White and Blueland\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Put Trump on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/22\/trump-honors-still-in-office-republican-bills-00244107\">$100 bill<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/02\/26\/trump-250-bill-legislation\">Print $250 bills<\/a> with a portrait of Trump on them\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rename Washington Dulles International Airport to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/05\/29\/trump-train-dc-metro\/83923837007\/\">\u201cDonald J. Trump International Airport\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And here\u2019s what they\u2019ve done for their constituents:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vote to put food assistance on the chopping block for nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/food-assistance\/millions-of-low-income-households-would-lose-food-aid-under-proposed-house\">42 million Americans<\/a>, especially impacting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/food-assistance\/millions-of-low-income-households-would-lose-food-aid-under-proposed-house\">children<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ccf.georgetown.edu\/2025\/01\/15\/cuts-to-medicaid-will-shift-costs-to-families-providers-and-will-be-especially-harmful-to-rural-communities\/\">rural communities\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vote to strip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/health\/house-republican-bill-would-cut-medicaid-funding-to-states-providing-own-health\">13.7 million Americans<\/a> of life-saving health care\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pave the way for nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/05\/21\/medicare-cuts-big-beautiful-bill-republicans-house\/\">$500 billion<\/a> in Medicare cuts, which would devastate millions of seniors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Threaten <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.gwu.edu\/new-report-federal-medicaid-and-snap-cuts-could-result-one-million-jobs-lost-and-state-gdps-falling\">1 million Americans\u2019 jobs<\/a> thanks to federal budget cuts\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Threaten to plummet state GDPs by more than <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.gwu.edu\/new-report-federal-medicaid-and-snap-cuts-could-result-one-million-jobs-lost-and-state-gdps-falling\">$110 billion<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After House Republicans passed sweeping cuts to health care and food assistance for millions of Americans, GOP Rep. 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