Mara Gay: It’s ‘Our Job’ to Explain to Americans How Bad It Is to Cut Waste & Fraud

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GAY: “Really, I think the message that the American people need to be hearing more is that all of this is being done, this slashing and burning, to essentially prepare the country for Donald Trump’s tax cuts to the wealthy. And there’s gotta be a way to pay for that, and what’s gonna happen is that everyday Americans in their everyday lives are paying for it already. We’re seeing it in government services that are going to suffer already. We’ve been seeing that the FAA is really not up to the mark at the moment, they’re being gutted. Medicaid, Medicare, every part of the government that touches Americans' lives is about to be impacted, and it’s not clear yet that there’s a broad realization of this outside of Washington D.C., but it’s coming. And I think that’s one of the questions that I have just as a journalist right now, is do everyday Americans in the rest of the country understand that this is going to impact their lives in ways that can’t even imagine yet? That’s part of our job, is to explain that this is not just about out government workers in Washington. This is about the IRS. This is about people’s tax returns. This is about people’s Social Security. Nothing is secure right now, and the government is not being remade to be efficient. This is an effort to destroy it. And I think that is the core message that Democrats need to be explaining every day in great detail. This is not an effort to make things more efficient.”