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Passages

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Thu Oct 9, 2025, 07:03 AM Oct 9

Donald Trump to Trump Country: Drop Dead

The president told MAGA voters exactly what he was going to do in 2024. Now he is doing it.

by Ryan Cooper October 9, 2025

One of the most baffling themes of Donald Trump’s second term is how he is specifically ruining the cities and lives of his most loyal voters—taking their factories, their jobs, their health care, their hospitals, and their future.

The first knife Trump drove into the backs of red economies was to repeal almost all of the Inflation Reduction Act. As I’ve previously covered, President Biden’s economic and climate program, particularly the IRA, ended up directing the lion’s share of its investment to red states and regions. In part because of more pro-business labor laws like “right to work” in these areas—as well as cheaper land—battery factories, solar factories, EV factories, and much else were mostly going up in Republican districts.

No longer! Most IRA-based future planned investment has been canceled—some of it moving to China or other countries—and some existing investment has been abandoned. The EV transition, on which American automakers had invested tens of billions of dollars, has been driven into a ditch.

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Conservative regions are taking the bulk of the bloodletting.

And now, Trump is yanking tens of billions of dollars of yet more red state high-tech investment that had already been approved as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law. Emily Pontecorvo has the details over at Heatmap News. Trump’s Department of Energy is now planning to cancel 659 grants worth nearly $24 billion, mostly from the infrastructure law, including all seven grants for “hydrogen hubs,” all grants for “direct air capture” projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere, every grant to support EV conversions at 13 auto factories at risk of closure, 11 of 15 grants to support green manufacturing in former coal regions, and 10 out of 38 grants for battery manufacturing and recycling.

https://prospect.org/politics/donald-trump-MAGA-IRA-projects-republican-districts/
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Donald Trump to Trump Country: Drop Dead (Original Post) Passages Oct 9 OP
Project 2025 wants to kill unwashed Americans, period. gab13by13 Oct 9 #1
My grandad was a coal miner. He had to quit because of black lung. Clouds Passing Oct 9 #2

gab13by13

(30,386 posts)
1. Project 2025 wants to kill unwashed Americans, period.
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 07:25 AM
Oct 9

The most people who are on Medicaid don't come from big cities, they come from rural America.

The fossil fuel industry has given Krasnov the most money and he has put them in his administration.

Giving subsidies to coal and taking them away from renewable energy is just plain stupid unless we consider who paid Krasnov off.

55 years ago I worked at a tile pipe plant. They had huge kilns that were fired with coal shoveled into 10 fire boxes. Several years after I quit working there the owner decided to replace the coal with natural gas which required less labor and kept the temperature constant.

When I was a kid my grandpa had a coal furnace and stove, what a chore it was to bank the furnace every night just right. At least they used the ashes in the winter to put over the snow and ice on the driveway.

My grandpa dug his own deep mine for coal, laid tracks and had a mule pull the coal car. My grandpa died from black lung.

Krasnov is taking us back to the stone ages, his enablers in Congress and the Supreme Court are fucking monsters to allow this.

Clouds Passing

(6,399 posts)
2. My grandad was a coal miner. He had to quit because of black lung.
Thu Oct 9, 2025, 09:23 AM
Oct 9

My neighbors burned coal for heat, we would watch the coal truck dump a load of it into their basement bin.

To think we could have had clean renewable energy invented by N.Tesla if it weren’t for the fossil barons actively killing any emerging energy alternatives.

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