They understand that the vast majority of people who benefit from these tax credits live in states the President won, and that the President’s own pollsters have underscored the enormous political urgency of Republicans acting.
Shaheen emphasizes the political importance of health care tax credits for Trump's supporters.
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It’s not just gotten more partisan, but the base has gotten to the point where, if you work with the other side, that’s considered by some to be a negative character trait.
I was at a company in New Hampshire last week that does ball bearings for the aerospace industry. They told me that because of the tariffs on steel, that what used to take them 20 weeks to get steel. They're now having a two and a half year backlog that puts a real strain on our Department of Defense.
But taking a chainsaw to all of our foreign assistance programs over a weekend and eliminating 84% of them is not a strategic and thoughtful approach.
He went a ways towards agreeing with that. I would like to explore some of his answers a little more.
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