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Senate Republican cool with childhood poverty in Trump’s America
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina was on with Fox News Thursday, doing what passes for Republican campaigning these days: longing for the good old child poverty times.
“The president’s legacy is on the midterm ballot,” Scott said. “I want to make sure that America continues to be the land of fairness and freedom, so the next generation of young people can grow up like I did—maybe in poverty, maybe in a single-parent household—but all things are possible in the greatest country on God’s green earth. Let’s save America.”
In Scott’s defense, besides being a bootlicker of the highest order, he is only toeing the longstanding Republican line of whittling away at funding to programs that help children. Whether by voting against free school lunch, ending subsidies for low-income broadband services, or sending millions of kids back below the poverty line by blocking the expansion of the child tax credit, the GOP has done everything it can to make childhood poverty part of the conservative “legacy.”
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