Trump has repeatedly broken his word to Pennsylvanians on health care, equal pay, child care
The Trump campaign’s new “Women for Trump” bus tour is an attempt to reset his broken relationship with Pennsylvania women who have watched him go back on his word time and again. They’ve seen three and a half years of failed leadership,and it’s far too late to convince them he’ll spend the next four years keeping his promises.
Trump has used every tool in his arsenal to block and increase the cost of women’s access to health care after claiming he cared about the issue.
PROMISE: “Women’s health issues to me are very important.” [Meet The Press, NBC, 8/16/15]
- REALITY: Trump is fighting to overturn the Affordable Care Act, which could allow insurers to charge women more and not cover maternity care.
- REALITY: Trump supported overturning the ACA without offering a replacement plan, which could lead to as many as 237,000 Pennsylvania women losing their health insurance.
- REALITY: Trump issued a regulation allowing employers to refuse to provide no-cost contraception coverage as previously required under the Affordable Care Act.
- REALITY: Trump slashed funding for family planning programs and health care providers.
- REALITY: In 2016, Trump called for an abortion ban with “some form of punishment” for women — which was too extreme even for many anti-abortion activists.
- REALITY: After promising to “automatically” overturn Roe v. Wade, Trump has packed the Supreme Court and circuit courts with extremist opponents of reproductive rights.
Trump has failed to protect women against discrimination at work and school, especially around equal pay.
PROMISE: “I’m Proud That I Provide Equal Play And Equal Pay For Equal Work. I Have To Do That.” [Trump Campaign Rally, Ambridge PA, 10/10/16]
- REALITY: Trump revoked protections against workplace sexual harassment, sexual assault, discrimination, and pay disparities.
- REALITY: Trump opposed equal pay legislation and said “people have to go out and they have to fight for themselves.”
- REALITY: Trump said women would make the same as men if they “do as good a job.”
Trump has failed to reduce the cost of childcare and made little progress on paid family leave.
PROMISE: “Childcare is such a big problem. We’re going to solve that problem. That means we need working mothers to be fairly compensated for their work and have access to affordable, quality childcare for their kids.” [Trump Remarks In Childcare Policy Speech, Aston PA, 9/13/16]
- REALITY: Trump touted an insufficient paid family leave proposal that “does not offer what has generally been considered paid family leave.”
- REALITY: In the midst of a pandemic in which women are disproportionately losing their jobs, Trump scaled back paid leave requirements, leaving 75% of workers at risk of not receiving paid leave for childcare.
Trump’s tax giveaway made childcare even more expensive — even as he claimed his tax plan would do the opposite.
PROMISE: “We will let parents deduct childcare expenses from their taxes and create tax free childcare and elder care savings accounts with matching contributions for low-income families.” [Trump Campaign Rally, Valley Forge PA, 11/1/16]
- REALITY: Trump’s tax scam reduced the value of the childcare credit for low- and moderate-income families even as it gave huge tax cuts to big corporations and the wealthiest 1%.