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JD Vance's Surprise Admission About Trump, Medicaid Boomerangs on Him (Greg Sargent, The New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/195499/jd-vance-trump-medicaid-cuts-snip-
Back in 2017, when House Republicans were feverishly trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act during Trump’s first term, Vance repeatedly criticized the effort’s Medicaid cuts, castigating them as a serious betrayal of Trump voters—and, importantly, of the supposed working-class populism underlying Trump’s support. Trump voters, Vance said then, backed him because unlike other Republicans, he “wasn’t saying I’m going to take away … your Medicaid.”
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At the time, Vance was riding a wave of fame as his Hillbilly Elegy memoir and Trump’s surprise 2016 election victory turned Vance into a celebrated decoder of life in working-class white America, even as he personally remained an opponent of Trump. But Vance also emerged as a major public critic of that House GOP bill, especially its savage cuts to Medicaid spending.
In a 2017 interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for instance, Vance faulted the GOP repeal effort’s Medicaid cuts, which he explicitly cast as a betrayal of Trump voters. Vance said Trump had been elected precisely because he refrained from saying, “I’m going to take away your Social Security and your Medicaid.” This, said Vance, had differentiated Trump from plutocratic Republicans who wouldn’t “take care of working-class people.”
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President Trump actively championed that bill at the time. And though the Senate killed it, Vance didn’t forget what it had revealed about Trump and Trumpism. In 2020 private texts obtained by The Washington Post, Vance lamented that Trump’s first term had “thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism.” It is likely, given Vance’s criticism of the GOP repeal effort, that this was a partial reference to that.
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Back in 2017, when House Republicans were feverishly trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act during Trump’s first term, Vance repeatedly criticized the effort’s Medicaid cuts, castigating them as a serious betrayal of Trump voters—and, importantly, of the supposed working-class populism underlying Trump’s support. Trump voters, Vance said then, backed him because unlike other Republicans, he “wasn’t saying I’m going to take away … your Medicaid.”
-snip-
At the time, Vance was riding a wave of fame as his Hillbilly Elegy memoir and Trump’s surprise 2016 election victory turned Vance into a celebrated decoder of life in working-class white America, even as he personally remained an opponent of Trump. But Vance also emerged as a major public critic of that House GOP bill, especially its savage cuts to Medicaid spending.
In a 2017 interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for instance, Vance faulted the GOP repeal effort’s Medicaid cuts, which he explicitly cast as a betrayal of Trump voters. Vance said Trump had been elected precisely because he refrained from saying, “I’m going to take away your Social Security and your Medicaid.” This, said Vance, had differentiated Trump from plutocratic Republicans who wouldn’t “take care of working-class people.”
-snip-
President Trump actively championed that bill at the time. And though the Senate killed it, Vance didn’t forget what it had revealed about Trump and Trumpism. In 2020 private texts obtained by The Washington Post, Vance lamented that Trump’s first term had “thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism.” It is likely, given Vance’s criticism of the GOP repeal effort, that this was a partial reference to that.
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Vance should be questioned on this. But he doesn't seem to be very available to the media these days....
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