Donald Trump claimed he would help American workers. Now, he’s betraying them

In 2024, candidate Donald Trump ran for president as someone who cared about the average worker in America. But during his first month in office, he has fallen head over heels for the billionaire class and forgotten the people who elected him. Right from the start, President Trump handed our government over to the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, and gave him access to all our most sensitive, personal data so that Musk can use that exclusive access to make himself even richer.  

Even worse, Trump and Musk have launched a dizzying series of assaults on low- and middle-income workers, making clear that this billionaire takeover of our government will leave American workers even more powerless than they were before.  

And it’s not just Musk – Trump has surrounded himself with a band of billionaires who could not be more out of touch with the everyday experience of most Americans. The federal minimum wage has been the same since 2009: $7.25. Sixty-two percent of Americans support raising the minimum wage to $15 because they agree if you work a full-time job, you shouldn’t be living at or below the poverty level.  

He shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau so he can turn X into an unregulated payments app. He destroyed USAID to give China, where he manufactures half of his cars, more power on the world’s stage. Unsurprisingly, Musk’s personal net worth has increased $130 billion since the election.  

Trump might have run as someone who cared about regular people, but he’s governing like someone obsessed with one, singular idea: steal from workers in order to enrich the very, very wealthy and the corporate class. Every day Americans see more proof of Trump’s blind loyalty to members of his own billionaire clique and his abandonment of the working-class voters who supported him last November. The evidence is stacking up and increasingly impossible to ignore. 

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Democrat Chris Murphy represents Connecticut in the U.S. Senate.

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