He made the claim tonight that he’s doing terrific things for working families.

I take it he means the term “terrific”
in the sense that what he is doing is terrifying to working families.

When Donald Trump was last at 1600 Penn, he repeatedly tried to raise the rent on at least four million of the poorest people in this country, many of them elderly or disabled.

He proposed to cut the federal disability benefits of a quarter-million low-income children, on the grounds that someone else in their family was already receiving benefits.

He attempted to put in place a requirement that poor parents cooperate with child support enforcement, including by having single mothers disclose their sexual histories, before they and their children could receive food assistance.

He tried to enact a rule allowing employers to pocket workers’ tips.

He tried to end overtime pay for millions of low income day laborers.

And he gave tax cuts to billionaires while effectively increasing the marginal rate that low income Americans pay in taxes.

Yep. That sure is both “populist” and “putting Americans first”, right boys?

[UPDATED: it is telling that none of the Powerline boys will admit to watching Tangerine 2.0’s lie-a-thon of last night; their reviews admit they went to bed — and none of them mention the lies about being for working families. Heh.]

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