Republicans have had full control of the federal government for the past 18 months.
Here is how they govern:
-Enacted broad tariffs that took an economy called the envy of the world and slowed it to a crawl.
-2024 had 2.9% inflation. Today it is 4.2%.
-The lowest earners had been seeing the largest wage gains. In 2025, they reversed that: not only did they have the lowest gains, but they were also losing ground to inflation.
-Now the average wage is also losing ground, with a 0.8% decrease due to the high inflation.
-2023 and 2024 combined averaged over 165,000 jobs created each month. 2025 and 2026 combined are only 40,000 per month.
-GDP growth dropped from 2.8% in 2024 to 2.1% last year, and down to 1.6% so far this year.
-An ill-planned, pointless war was started in Iran. Then, the US gave up because the war was so bad for the economy and gained nothing for the loss of life and equipment.
-Our allies are moving away from us. Our trading partners are looking elsewhere.
-The president has used the White House to enrich himself and his family with billions through grifts.
-Republicans don't even talk about their one major piece of legislation anymore, the "One Big Beautiful Bill, because it kicked a million kids off of food assistance, made millions lose their healthcare, and accelerated the deficit and debt, all so that corporations and billionaires could get more tax breaks and loopholes.
-The top 1% now hold as much wealth as the bottom 90%.
-They pretend they gave you a tax cut, too, but they actually taxed you more. The average income tax refund increased by ~$300, but the average household paid over $1,500 in tariffs. Then there are the higher prices from inflation, making it even worse.
America is worse off today than it was in January 2025, and Republicans are to blame.
Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.
The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.
Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.
The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.
Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.
The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.
The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.
This is your tax money.
It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.
We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.
Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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