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100 Days, 100 Ways Republicans Have Made Life Worse In America

We are officially 100 days out from the election. While House Democrats remain focused on lowering prices at the grocery store and the gas pump, Donald Trump and House Republicans have spent this Congress making life harder and more expensive for working families.

To mark 100 days out from the midterms, here are 100 ways Republicans have hurt everyday Americans:

  1. Voting to cut $880 billion from Medicaid
  2. Skyrocketing gas prices at the pump
  3. Raising health care premiums
  4. Tax cuts for billionaires
  5. Tax cuts for mega-corporations
  6. Rubber-stamping Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts
  7. Dodging town halls with constituents
  8. Sky-high grocery bills
  9. Funding the reckless war in Iran
  10. Launching a nationwide gerrymandering scheme
  11. Costing American households an extra $3,500
  12. Increasing the deficit by trillions of dollars
  13. Cutting Social Security Administration funding
  14. Stripping local K-12 school funding
  15. Gutting the CDC, worsening the Cyclospora outbreak
  16. Handing ICE a blank-check with zero guardrails 
  17. Failing to extend the ACA tax credits
  18. Gutting home energy assistance (LIHEAP)
  19. Raising home utility bills
  20. Raising fuel costs
  21. Slashing SNAP food benefits for struggling families
  22. Defunding crime prevention programs
  23. Higher housing and mortgage costs
  24. Killing local infrastructure projects mid-construction
  25. Reversing Medicare drug price initiatives
  26. Slashing CDC public health funding
  27. Cutting rural hospital and clinic funding
  28. Putting rural hospitals at risk of closing or limiting services
  29. Defunding Title X birth control programs
  30. Threatening to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education
  31. Threatening Pell Grants for working-class students
  32. Pushing federal book bans in schools
  33. Giving themselves a tax break 
  34. Cutting free school breakfast and lunch
  35. Defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  36. Allowing predatory junk fees on travel and banking
  37. Cutting VA healthcare staffing and funding, ballooning wait times
  38. Gutting minimum wage protections 
  39. Protecting pedophiles
  40. Refusing to release the Epstein Files
  41. Stripping union organizing protections
  42. Cutting funding for toxic lead pipe replacement
  43. Failing to address the measles outbreak
  44. Rolling back clean energy manufacturing jobs
  45. Gutting EPA environmental protections
  46. Rolling back toxic chemical regulations
  47. Pushing to privatize Medicare into vouchers
  48. Slashing mental health and addiction recovery funds
  49. Defunding Planned Parenthood health screenings
  50. Cutting funding for maternal mortality research
  51. Handing sensitive data to tech billionaires
  52. Advancing a budget that cuts federal job training programs 
  53. Freezing disaster relief for small family farms
  54. Attacking rural postal delivery services
  55. Blocking child care affordability grants
  56. Cutting small town transportation grants
  57. Defunding community violence intervention programs
  58. Repealing automatic airline refund rules
  59. Slashing elder abuse prevention programs
  60. Undermining nursing home staffing standards
  61. Endangering Meals on Wheels senior nutrition
  62. Working to restrict mail-in and early voting access
  63. Restricting access to mifepristone and telehealth care
  64. Introducing cuts to Ryan White HIV/AIDS treatment grants
  65. Laying off air traffic controllers
  66. Shutting down the government for 43 days
  67. Holding the government hostage for 76 days
  68. Threatening grants for affordable housing construction
  69. Raising taxes on middle-class working families
  70. Defunding IRS audits on high-income tax evaders
  71. Proposing cuts to chemical spill protections in rural areas
  72. Blocking utility bill relief programs
  73. Slashing disaster preparedness funding
  74. Cutting billions in funding for foreign aid 
  75. Cutting billions in funding Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  76. Threatening disability benefits
  77. Proposing cuts for local K-12 teacher training
  78. Threatening to eliminate community school grants
  79. Defunding university scientific research
  80. Working to overturn local municipal tax autonomy
  81. Escalating Middle East conflict without oversight
  82. Sacrificing domestic energy stability for foreign war
  83. Imposing a universal tariff on foreign goods
  84. Slapping 25% tariffs on everyday imports from Mexico and Canada
  85. Raising new car prices and repair costs 
  86. Slapping 50% tariffs on foreign steel, aluminum, and copper
  87. Spiking prescription drug prices 
  88. Eliminating the $800 duty-free exemption
  89. Squeezing small businesses reliant on foreign raw materials
  90. Driving up home construction and repair costs 
  91. Increasing prices on back-to-school clothes, shoes, and supplies
  92. Raising the price of home electronics, phones, and appliances
  93. Firing thousands of veterans from their jobs
  94. Hurting small business owners 
  95. Crushing American soybean farmers with retaliatory foreign tariffs
  96. Costing corn growers critical overseas export markets
  97. Shutting down dozens of Social Security offices across the country
  98. Raising fertilizer costs for farmers
  99. Squeezing U.S. pork producers 
  100. Devastating cattle ranchers and beef exporters

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