I saw an artist who used different cuts of steak to create portraits of people.

It was a rare medium, but well done

Trump's budget bill — the one and only major legislative effort of Trump 2.0 — is the most regressive, least populist policy package in living memory.

With its distinctive mix of tax cuts laser-focused on the rich and spending cuts that most hurt middle- and low-income Americans,
it would shift more resources up the income ladder than any bill passed since scorekeepers started keeping track.

And when voters learn what it would do — even Republican voters — they recoil against it.

We know, because we asked them. In a survey we ran after the House version of the bill passed,
we showed a random selection of voters how the bill would affect the take-home income of less affluent Americans versus the top 1 percent.

Opposition exploded, with only 11 percent of Americans supporting the bill
— one-third the level of support seen among those not shown the distributional results.
Among Republicans, the shift was even larger: Support and opposition flipped
— to nearly 3 to 1 opposition from nearly 3 to 1 support.
As unpopular as the bill is, however, Americans have yet to fully understand the special alchemy of inegalitarianism that defines it.

Break through the deception and misdirection, and Republicans’ signature policy bill,
which President Trump and G.O.P. lawmakers call the “one big beautiful bill,”
seems more aptly named Elites Over Working Families.

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