Friday, February 28, 2025

Greetings from Trump's America: Lake County, Michigan where Ryleigh believed First Felon's promise to make IVF free


Headline:  Washington Post, 2/27/2025
3rd party votes:  22.0% in 1992, 13.1% in 1996, 4.8% in 2016
(Alabama segregationist George Wallace 
received  7.9% of the vote in 1968)
Election results and population:  Wikipedia

Emily Davies reports:
It was the second Thursday in February, and a historic White House purge aimed at federal workers like Cooper was sweeping the country. But the headlines felt far away from her life in rural Michigan. She figured her job, with paychecks totaling about $40,000 a year, would be safe from the cost-cutting campaign led by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. 
Besides, motherhood was her most pressing concern. Cooper, 24, and her husband were trying to get pregnant, but the doctor said that IVF might be their best chance. Trump had promised to make it free. That is what she thought about in the voting booth. [emphasis added]
Now she was staring at her phone, learning that probationary workers in the Forest Service were the next to be fired by his administration. Cooper would likely be one of them, her union head told her.
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