As the election gets closer, Trump keeps promising so many things are going to happen, but not until after the election. In many cases Trump has also stated that some of his promises will only happen if Republicans are re-elected to Congress.
Some of these right after election promises include:
- The end of the Iran war
- Bombing of Iran again
- A deal will be reached with Iran
- The price of oil will go down
- The price of gas will drop to below $2.00/gallon
- $5,000 checks will be sent to all adults in the U.S. (if Republicans win)
- Lift restrictions on gas containing ethanol so it can be sold year round
- Farmers will receive additional relief (if Republicans win)
- A $100 million pharmaceutical-facility investment to be located in Kentucky
- Settlement of “legitimate” Camp Lejeune water contamination claims (if Republicans win)
- Consideration of Ohio for the Space Force Academy
If this talk of something happening sometime in the “near future” sounds familiar, it is because we heard it during his first term, along with some promises that have never materialized so far in Trump’s second term.
These include:
- A Republican health-care reform plan (1st Term)
- An infrastructure plan and funding (1st Term)
- An executive order on pre-existing conditions (health care) (1st Term)
- COVID high number of deaths would end within two weeks (1st Term)
- $2,000 checks to be sent due to savings on tariffs (2nd Term)
- $5,000 dividend checks from savings from DOGE activities (2nd Term)
- Up to $1,500 when Obamacare (ACA) subsidies ended for those affected (2nd Term)
Not sure about you, but I sense a pattern of promises that haven’t been fulfilled in either Trump’s first or second term. There are also a whole lot of promises being offered, but only after the mid-term elections in a little over a week.
I wonder how many people are going to continue to fall for Trump’s empty promises, especially those about receiving direct checks.
Now, to Trump and the Republican’s credit, there are some promises they campaigned on they have fulfilled. Sadly, none of them are going to help American’s, especially those that are most in need—children, the disabled, and the elderly.
Promises kept, which conveniently don’t go into effect until after the mid-term election on November 3. The Republicans timed these cuts for after this election so they would’t have to be held accountable for them when people went to the polls.
Some of those promises that will go into effect in 2027 and 2028 are:
- Increase in Medicaid eligibility requirements
- Increase in frequency in which people must re-apply for Medicaid
- Decrease in funding for Medicaid coverage
- Decrease in federal funding for SNAP and pushes more of the cost to the states
- Increase in SNAP eligibility requirements
These are promises made, or promises kept, that affected my vote. For me, I know any promise made by Trump and the Republicans that helps the American people will most likely be a folly, like the revised healthcare plan and tariff refund checks. I also know any promise made to hurt the American people (unless you are a multi-millionaire and billionaire), will be kept by the Republicans.
There is one more statement, not necessarily a direct promise by Trump, but has still be voiced publicly by Republicans, is what they plan to do with Social Security and possibly Medicare. Speaker Mike Johnson has said Social Security needs to be “adjusted and fixed,” meaning cuts. Johnson and Republicans want to lower benefits, increase eligibility requirements, raise the retirement age, “restructure” Medicare, or even privatize benefits. In contrast, the Democrats want to raise, or better yet, eliminate the $187,000 earnings cap so that the multi-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share into the Social Security fund (which is a separate fund that has no effect on the national debt Republicans like to say all the time; Side note: The federal government owes the fund $1.7 trillion dollars borrowed from the Social Security fund).
Please, if you are still trying to decide whom to vote for in this November’s mid-term, reread my posts of the last few weeks including today’s again. Read them through the lens of an America you want to live in. Read them as you decide if your life is better now than it was just two years ago.
Then, when you vote (early if at all possible), I urge and invite you to vote for the Democrats up and down the ballot to help end the corruption we see from the Trump White House each and every day. Vote to protect the most needy among us because some day, but for the grace of God, it may be you who needs help. Vote for your parents and grandparents to save their Social Security and Medicare benefits, and yours when you are of retirement age. Vote for the children born into poverty through no fault of their own. Vote for the America in which we care for one another.
See you at the polls.
P.S.—Make sure to check your voter registration weekly at vote.org (not Musk’s VoteSafe.org, which, based on reports, and my own opinion, is collecting data to be used in ways you might not like). Republicans across the spectrum are doing all they can to suppress your vote. Check your status to ensure you have time to fix it before showing up to vote, when it may be too late to correct.
P.P.S.—If you vote by mail, make sure to follow-up if you do not receive it when expected. Once complete, please do not mail it back through the post office. Drive it to the closest Drop Box where you live. If you aren’t able to drive, ask a friend, a relative, a neighbor, or if you have one, the local bus service, to take you to drop off your ballot at a Drop Box. Don’t let the Trump and Republican shenanigans stop your vote from being counted as they mess with the Post Office.
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