A little over a year into President Trump’s second term, and with a 36% approval rating, it’s about time for a performance review. Let’s see how we got here.

Metric 1: Spending Our Tax Dollars. Result: Wasteful

From deploying the National Guard to our cities at a cost of $500 million, to a sad military parade costing $45 million, President Trump has not shied away from spending taxpayer money for his own interests.

Every time the president wants to go golfing at Mar-a-Lago, it costs an estimated $800,000 in taxpayer money. While the president travels on American taxpayer’s dime, people across the country are facing travel nightmares and higher fuel costs.

The President has also funneled billions of taxpayer dollars into an illegal war with Iran that Congress never approved and Americans don’t want. Just one week of the Iran war cost Americans an estimated $11.3 billion and the administration is requesting an additional $200 billion to further fund this war.

Instead of spending these funds on the Iran war, the taxpayer money could go towards food assistance and rental assistance programs. You can learn more about what we could fund instead of the Iran war here.

Metric 2: Hiring Decisions. Result: Questionable

President Trump’s habit of hiring His friends has not proven effective.

Remember Elon Musk’s stint with DOGE? From cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion programs, to firing 260,000 civil servants, Zu accessing our private information through the Treasury Department, Musk tried to run the federal government like one of his businesses.

Unelected billionaires shouldn’t be put in charge of the federal government. We worked to get Musk fired and succeeded. See more about our campaign to Fire Elon.

Then there’s Kristi Noem, who, as Secretary of Homeland Security, defended ICE’s aggressive behavior, cut training, and enabled terror and abuse in our communities. This led to deaths in immigration detention centers as well as that of Americans like Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

While we managed to get her fired, the fight isn’t over. We are still calling for no funding for ICE until there’s real reform.

Recently, our members successfully pressured Congress to get a funding deal done that ensured not one penny more for ICE but is funding TSA. 

Metric 3: Improving Americans’ Lives. Result: Failure

President Trump campaigned on lowering prices, but the opposite has happened.

The illegal Iran war has already raised gas prices 34% across the country, with no end in sight. Energy prices are also affected and have risen by 7.62% and food, like coffee and off-season produce, has already risen in price by 2.18%.

This places a significant financial strain on Americans living paycheck to paycheck, who may have to decide between fuel or food.

The final result is President Trump is failing his responsibility to serve ALL Americans and is only working for himself and his wealthy friends.

His self-interested decision making is only going to continue to harm Americans.

We must hold him accountable.

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