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In the Republican Party Platform 2024: "2. Rein in Wasteful Federal Spending. Republicans will immediately stabilize the Economy by slashing wasteful Government spending"[2]
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/08/13/trump-b...
[2] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-pa...
I think this is a surprise to many…even Trump’s more ardent supporters. After all, they thought they were voting for President Trump, not Assistant (to the) President Trump.
There's still apparently 40% of the population that approves of this behavior. staggering 72% of republicans still approve of this behavior.
This did spike his approval ratings, but such an utter breach in the government really should be much closer to democrat's 10% here instead of the normally middling behavior of "bad" president's 40%. There's stll way too many people approving of this. For reference, Nixon's ratings right before resigning was 24%.
[0]: https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2025/2/dfp_trump_a...
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