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