Jared Ryan Sears

2025 has the highest number of measles cases since the 1990s. The second-highest year was during Trump's first term.

The Presidential Greatness Project has routinely ranked Trump dead last. In 2024, his score was 11 points out of 100. Biden, in 14th place, scored 63. Obama, in 7th place, scored 74.

Trump's first term saw the four highest years for farm bankruptcies in the past 12 years. The first year of Trump's second term has more farm bankruptcies than any of the past four years under Biden.

The two years with the lowest GDP growth out of the last three presidencies? Both under Trump.

The two longest government shutdowns in history have happened under Trump. There were none under Biden.

The two years with the highest debt-to-GDP ratio since WWII happened under Trump.

The two years with the most manufacturing job losses in the past 15 years happened under Trump.

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Republicans say there is no way Trump could fund SNAP benefits during the shutdown.

The same Republicans say :

What has a higher favorability rating among Americans compared to Trump?

-Canada
-Mexico
-Ukraine
-Immigrants
-Green Energy
-Electric vehicles
-ACA subsidies
-The ACA overall
-AOC
-Bernie Sanders
-Kamala Harris
-Joe Biden
-Hillary Clinton
-Barack Obama

To name just a few.

America’s Broken and Politicized Healthcare America spends nearly twice as much per person on healthcare as our peer nations, such as the European Union, Australia, and Japan.

America spends nearly twice as much per person on healthcare.

That spending gets us fewer doctor visits, shorter life expectancies, higher maternal and infant mortality rates, higher rates of death from preventable causes, and, contrary to the misinformation, longer wait times for care as well.

18% of the US GDP, or $4.9 trillion, is spent on healthcare.

These nations have some of the best healthcare on the planet:

Australia - 10% of GDP
Japan - 11%
Netherlands - 10%
UK - 11%
Germany - 12.5%
South Korea - 10%

How do they provide better healthcare at a lower cost?

Universal Healthcare.

The Fragile US Economy The US economy has barely managed to chug along in 2025, but lying beneath the surface is a single thread holding it all together.

The US economy has barely managed to chug along in 2025, but lying beneath the surface is a single thread holding it all together. If that string snaps, the economy goes down with it.

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We want to be able to visit the doctor, receive necessary care, and pay a small out-of-pocket fee for the visit. It is that simple.

Universal healthcare isn't a matter of if, only when.

We do not want employers to be involved in our healthcare. We don't want to have to figure out which doctors are in-network and which are out-of-network. We don't want healthcare to become so expensive that we're forced to forgo it.

Republicans realize that once the subsidies are extended, there is no going back. America has grown accustomed to more affordable healthcare.

Nearly 80% of Americans, including a majority of Republican voters, support extending the current ACA subsidies.

Last year, Gallup found that 62% of Americans believe the government should be responsible for ensuring that all Americans have healthcare.

The reason Republicans hate the ACA is simple: people like it.

Enrollment in the ACA has grown from 8 million in 2014, when the ACA went into effect, to over 25 million today. The most significant growth was in states won by Trump.
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I love America.

That is why I enlisted to serve in the Navy after high school.

It is why I speak out today to remind our government that we are a nation of the people, by the people, for the people.

Trump commuted George Santos's prison sentence, and acts like Santos's crime was lying a little.

George Santos stole the identities of donors to make fraudulent credit card charges.

Trump is sending a message to all Republicans that as long as you're loyal to him, you can break the law.

It Is Not About The Cost Money doesn’t grow on trees; it talks, and the dollar is almighty.

-Average cost per year to extend ACA subsidies: $35 billion
-Cuts to SNAP next year: $9 billion
-Free school lunches for all: $23 billion
-Cost to house all the homeless: $14 billion

Total: $81 billion

-Republicans' tax cuts to the top 1% in 2026 alone: $117 billion

$40 billion bailout for Argentina
$113 billion annual increase to the defense budget
$117 billion in tax cuts for the top 1% in 2026 alone
$75 billion increase in funding for ICE

Republicans say we don't have money for healthcare, but those costs would cover extending the ACA subsidies for a decade

Republicans are putting more effort into trying to discredit a peaceful protest than they are into solving the healthcare crisis or reopening the government.

Complete ineptitude combined with a disdain for the struggles of the American people.

As happens so often, Republican politicians have convinced their voters that the policies benefiting them are evil and socialist and must be ended, while Democrats are working to make sure the people who didn't vote for them are taken care of.

-Republicans claim we don't have money to continue the subsidies, which the CBO estimates would cost ~$35 billion per year, but decided we did have the money to give Argentina a $20 billion bailout, the wealthiest 1% a $117 billion tax cut, and increase the military budget by $113 billion.

-To further help people afford health insurance, Democrats enacted additional ACA premium subsidies in 2021 and extended them in 2022.

-To further help people afford health insurance, Democrats enacted additional ACA premium subsidies in 2021 and extended them in 2022.

-Despite more Republican voters using the ACA than Democratic ones, Republican politicians tried numerous times to repeal the ACA with no plan to replace it.

-If the ACA were repealed, 24 million Americans, the largest share of which is Republican voters, would entirely lose their healthcare.

-Contrary to the lies, healthcare premiums increased at a slower rate after the ACA was enacted than before, and healthcare access was improved, reducing the percentage of Americans uninsured from 14.4% to 7.7%.

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-Democrats enacted the Affordable Care Act without any help from Republicans so that people who previously couldn't afford healthcare, primarily Republican voters, now could.

Republicans Have A Trump Problem The government shutdown continues.

Trump voters are watching the wealthiest Americans become the richest they’ve ever been, while houses remain unaffordable, healthcare costs rise, and outstanding credit card debt hits a record high of $1.2 trillion, the result of hard-working Americans desperately struggling to stay afloat.

Republicans are not putting America first. They are prioritizing their quest for power over your needs.

Republicans are unfit to govern.

Republicans view discussion, debate, and compromise —the hallmarks of a democratic society —as weaknesses. They feel that bullying and cruelty, the foundations of authoritarian regimes, are the basis for leadership.