“Mind-Boggling”: Trump Voters Suddenly Learn He’s Screwing Them Badly

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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It’s becoming clearer that many of President Trump’s supporters are realizing how badly they’re getting shafted by his big budget bill and other leading initiatives. Senator Mitch McConnell just privately admitted that many Republicans are getting major blowback from “people back home” about the bill’s deep Medicaid cuts, adding that “they’ll get over it.” A stunning Fox News poll just found that a majority of white men without a college degree oppose the bill. Crucially, these voters make up “the heart of Trump’s base.” Amazingly, Trump’s own pollster just bluntly suggested that Trump voters are feeling betrayal. On top of all that, Trump supporters again and again have been horrified to learn that his deportations are victimizing immigrants they like. And the tariffs are already hurting Trump country. So how badly are his working class voters getting hit? To find out, we talked to economist Jared Bernstein, who paints a dark picture of the impact they’re feeling from all these policies taken together. Add it all up, Bernstein concludes, and the Trump-GOP lack of concern as their voters learn they’re taking it on the chin is “mind-boggling.” Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:34.1	On many fronts at once, it's suddenly sinking in how badly President Donald Trump's policies are screwing over his own voters.
0:39.3	Trump just lost his temper with Canada and launched a new trade war with that country that could hurt working class voters, his people very much included. Whatever happens with that,
0:45.6	the tariffs are continuing across the board. This comes as it's becoming clearer by the day how
0:51.2	badly Trump's big budget bill will hammer Trump voters.
0:55.1	And Trump himself recently admitted that his mass deportations are hurting farmers, a major
1:00.3	GOP constituency, and hurting the economy to boot.
1:04.3	So we're checking in with economist Jared Bernstein, who has a new piece on his substack
1:09.0	arguing that the data is pointing to a softening economy,
1:12.5	which means everything is poised to get worse.
1:15.9	Jared's going to help us make sense of where we are on all this.
1:18.9	Thanks for coming on, man.
1:20.3	Thanks for inviting me, Greg.
1:22.4	So the New York Times had this amazing piece the other day kind of tallying up how badly the budget bill is going
1:28.4	to hit working people. The House version will cut food benefits by hundreds of billions of
1:33.9	dollars and it would knock over 10 million people off health care roles. That's going to hit a huge
1:40.4	chunk of the working poor across this country. Can you talk about that?
1:54.0	Yeah, there have been lots of calculations trying to assess the damage here. There's never been a budget bill that redistributes income more aggressively from the bottom to the top.
2:01.7	This is Robin Hood in reverse on massive doses of steroids.
2:07.5	They're literally taking money from poor people and giving it to rich people.
2:12.2	And anyone who knows anything about what it's like to try to get by,
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