Trump move seen as 'astonishing' attack on red states and rural voters
Donald Trump's megabill is "astonishing" in how it will target rural and red state voters, according to the mayor of Kansas City Saturday.
Mayor Quinton Lucas appeared on MSNBC over the weekend to discuss the potential impacts of the so-called "big, beautiful" bill, which the president recently signed into law.
According to Lucas, the measure is "astonishing for a few different reasons."
"Some of us who live in the cities are used to getting picked on by this administration, are used to getting picked on by the Republican party, but what they did this time was undermined, destabilized health care in rural Missouri and rural middle America and rural parts of our entire country," he said. "You are going to see is more hospitals closed in rural parts of America. You are going to see more people die and more people die earlier in rural America."
He added, "If ever there has been a bill that lets lots of people in the red states, and I happen to live in one, know that our leadership does not care about you, it is this bill."
"It is unconscionable to me as somebody who does spend my days caring about not just the people in my city, but all the people who are hours and hours away, who come to our city for care," he said. "I'm terrified for that woman who has a difficult pregnancy now."