Here’s Nika Knight at CommonDreams looking at the new Quinnipiac poll: Trump Budget Horrifies Majority of Voters, Poll Finds
Most Americans don't want Elmo to get fired.
They also don't want enormous funding cuts to medical research, after-school and summer programs, new road and transit projects, climate change research, and a program to help low income people heat their homes.
Those cuts—and many more—comprise the "morally obscene" budget put together by the Trump administration, and a new Quinnipiac poll published Friday demonstrates that those proposals are deeply unpopular with most Americans.
The numbers showing widespread disapproval of President Donald Trump's budget are out just as public figures call for a "total shutdown" of government over the president's alleged ties to Russia, and as Trump grapples with the apparent collapse of his attempt to pass a cruel and unpopular healthcare bill. [...]
By wide margins," Quinnipiac notes, "American voters say other proposed cuts are a 'bad idea:'"
- 84 - 13 percent against cutting funding for new road and transit projects;
- 67 - 31 percent against cuts to scientific research on the environment and climate change;
- 83 - 14 percent against cutting funding for after-school and summer school programs;
- 66 - 27 percent against eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities;
- 79 - 17 percent against eliminating the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
President Donald Trump's oft-repeated campaign promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is also a "bad idea," 64 percent of respondents said. Only 35 percent approved of the wall. [...]
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
“A respect for the rights of other people to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it. One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt, Tomorrow Is Now (1963)
TWEET OF THE DAY
• What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- Signs of hope for Democrats in 2018? A cautious yes, by Sher Watts Spooner
- If Democrats fail to fight Gorsuch, they look weak and share the blame for future decisions, by David Akadjian
- The blindness of anti-Trump Republicans, by Ian Reifowitz
- Okay pro-lifers, since ACA repeal will kill tens of thousands, can we count on you, by Egberto Willies
- Trumpcare in red and blue, by Jon Perr
- America’s dumbest congressman* is at it again, by Mark E Andersen
- Voter suppression and anti-union laws work in tandem when the GOP takes over a state’s government, by Stephen Wolf
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Black suffragist, abolitionist, publisher and lawyer, by Denise Oliver Velez
- Selling across state lines will be a great deal … for insurance companies, by DarkSyde
BLAST FROM THE PAST
At Daily Kos on this date in 2010—Hilda Solis:
Sometimes, you're just lucky. My good fortune, not the only one, but I savor it, is that I live two doors up the street from one of Hilda Solis's many sisters. Another one used to live two doors further down, but she and her husband managed to sell their house just before the real estate market went belly up here in Los Angeles. That good fortune has meant I've gotten to rub elbows with Solis at a few private parties. I won't reveal any secrets. Everybody already knows she's smart, tough, and the most liberal member of President Obama's Cabinet. A friend of working Americans since before she was appointed Secretary of Labor. A friend of labor unions before she was a Congresswoman. A working-class woman from a working-class immigrant family who has neither forgotten nor forsaken her roots.
If the Chamber of Commerce and its biggest right-wing pals in the Senate had had their way, she wouldn't be where she is. Her open support for the Employee Free Choice Act was something that stuck in their craw. The prospect of that becoming law was what the CEO of Home Depot once called the "demise of civilization." Her foes managed to delay her appointment for nearly two months before finally surrendering.
They were not eager to see Solis heading what might as well have been renamed the Crush Labor Department under her Republican predecessor, Elaine Chao, who is married to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, named one of the 15 most corrupt members of Congress in 2009.
They were right to worry. Although EFCA stands little chance of passage in the near future, ever since Solis was confirmed, she's been putting working men and women into many of the federal regulatory positions that under the Cheney-Bush administration were assigned to union-busting foes of regulation. […]
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