Red states tend to NOT have the economies that Blue states do…..
Trump’s getting Republicans to help him in his tax cuts and CUTTING support programs for their supporters is HURTING …
Ya just can’t understand WTF Republicans KEEP beating THEMSELVES UP by following Trump off the political cliffs….
Republican-led states facing major budget shortfalls in 2026 are facing an awkward reality: President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending bill is making their problems worse.
Federal tax cuts approved by Republicans as part of the megabill, coupled with new requirements for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, are costing some states as much as $450 million this year in added costs and lost tax revenue, further squeezing budgets that were already stretched thin. Legislatures are now considering cuts and reallocations, including a cut to child care subsidies in Missouri, a 5 percent reduction across state agencies in Arizona and a $22 million cut from disability services in Idaho.
“We’re stealing from Peter to pay Paul,” Idaho Republican state Rep. Jordan Redman said recently. Aligning Idaho’s state tax with Trump’s federal tax cuts is estimated to cost the state $155 million in 2026 and $175 million in 2027, according to the governor’s office. “It’s put us in a predicament where now we’re trying to figure out, ‘Ok, what programs do we keep? What programs do we cut?’”
Trump has already struggled to sell Americans on many provisions of his “big, beautiful bill,” from Medicaid and SNAP cuts to tax changes that provide the most benefit to the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans. Now Republicans, many of whom support the president’s tax policy, are now facing the prospect of unpopular state-level spending cuts or new taxes that might make selling Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” harder, especially as the president drifts from messaging on the law and affordability to other major issues, including the war in Iran.
“The feedback I’m hearing from citizens is that extra few bucks on their [return] at the end of the year, because of the taxes they didn’t have to pay, comes secondary to wanting us to take care of the things that government needs to be invested in,” said Idaho GOP Sen. Jim Guthrie. “Which is your infrastructure and your roads and bridges and schools and also your Medicaid population.”….
“ You just can’t understand WTF Republicans keep beating themselves up by following Trump off the political cliff.. “
Hilarious
James is always trying ,unsuccessfully I might add, to argue with me when I declare what is quite obvious to any serious person that Trump owns the Republican Party.
Now here he is declaring he can’t “ understand.”
They do this James because they’re Republicans and they understand ,even if you don’t, that Trump has the overwhelming support ( around 90% ) of self proclaimed Republicans and that if they buck him their political future will be greatly endangered.
Then again, James has been here babbling for around a decade now about how Republicans are going to turn on Trump and goes bonkers when one or two Republicans in Congress buck him here and there.
Remember his words above because within a few days he’ll be back at it telling us for the umpteenth time that Republicans are turning on Trump etc….
Uh just “ wait “….
They ARE a captive audience
Indeed
He keeps screwing them and most come back for more
I posted 30. Have lost their jobs and more coming as Trump
Screws up
The House is gone in Jan
That the Senate is where it is right now proves my point
And I keep posting the clues about Trump losing juice
‘Around the edges’
I Will Continue
I KNOW MOST are idiots
But there IS Slippage
Come 2029?
Republicans ARE SCREWED….