It’s been a brutal start to Donald Trump’s second term in office. Over the last two months, he’s launched dangerous and reckless attacks on the economy, health care, public safety, and public health research. Trump ran on improving the lives of American families, but so far his policies have made Americans poorer, sicker, and more unsafe.
To underscore this local impact, the largest opposition research organization in the Democratic Party, American Bridge 21st Century, is enhancing MAGAFiles, a one-stop shop for anti-Trump and anti-MAGA Republican opposition research. The Republican Impacts Project launching today is an open-source database documenting the state-by-state impacts to the economy, public health, and public safety posed by Trump’s dangerous cuts.
“People need to see just how widespread Americans’ suffering is as a result of Trump’s cuts — which he’s made solely to legitimize lowering taxes for billionaires. Thanks to Trump’s firings, Social Security beneficiaries will see delays in receiving critical benefits due to backlogs. If you’re on Medicaid or Medicare, Trump fired staff tasked with helping you navigate the healthcare system. He’s even cut research to find cures for illnesses like Alzheimer’s, cancer, and heart disease,” said American Bridge 21st Century President Pat Dennis. “There isn’t a single community across the country that won’t feel the impact of Trump and Republicans hacking away at programs that keep Americans safe, healthy, and prosperous. Sharing the stories of individuals who are feeling these impacts at their kitchen tables is how we make that point crystal clear.”
The Republican Impact Project is the latest research initiative from American Bridge 21st Century to hold Republicans and the Trump administration accountable for their extreme, far-right agenda. Using our vast and effective opposition research apparatus, American Bridge 21st Century is prepared to ensure that none of the Trump administration’s dangerous policies, and the congressional Republicans who support them, escape scrutiny.
Highlights of the database:
Making America Poorer
- Across the nation, farmers are getting hit hard by Trump’s cuts ahead of a critical growing season.
- In Louisiana, Trump froze $22 million for LSU’s research initiative to help farmers grow more resilient crops to benefit Louisiana farmers regularly facing hurricanes and extreme weather events.
- In Iowa, farmers are hurting from Trump’s decision to freeze Regional Food Systems Infrastructure grants designed to help farmers purchase the infrastructure to help feed the state and the entire nation.
- In Wisconsin, farmers voiced confusion about what grants would be available to prepare for this year’s growing season.
- In Idaho, Trump fired experts tasked with facilitating timber sales with lumber producers.
- In Arizona, Trump fired Department of Agriculture employees tasked with administering government loans for projects such as drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, hospitals, and food programs across rural communities in the state.
- In Ohio, Trump fired at least 20 IRS employees. The former IRS workers warned of delayed refunds during the upcoming tax season.
- With tourism season right around the corner, Trump’s firing of National Park Service employees will have a real impact on local economies.
- In Pennsylvania, Trump fired employees at the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton. In 2016, the park supported 86 jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $7.4 million.
- In Wisconsin, local officials in Bayfield County are warning the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore faces an uncertain future due to national park staff layoffs. In 2023, the Apostle Islands brought in $44.4 million dollars in communities near the park. The spending supported 608 jobs in the local area. Now, locals are bracing for a downturn.
- In Oregon, National Forest Service workers were fired despite park tourism contributing $76 million to the state’s economy in 2023.
Making America Sicker
- In Ohio, Trump fired thousands of federal workers, including a health education specialist in the Department of Health and Human Services who was helping mothers struggling with post-partum depression.
- In Cleveland, OH, Trump fired two VA mental health professionals who had patients scheduled for appointments the next day.
- In Georgia, Trump fired 600 workers at the Centers for Disease Control – including a disabled veteran worried about staying in his home without an income.
- In Washington State, VA employees were subject to Trump’s mass nationwide firings. Now, patients like U.S. Marine Andrew Stevens, who is battling cancer and lung failure, fear their quality of care will decline significantly.
- In Illinois, Trump fired 20 federal workers at Peoria’s National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research famous for discovering methods to mass produce penicillin.
- In Iowa, Trump fired workers in the USDA’s National Animal Health Laboratory Network which is tasked with responding to animal diseases like avian flu which has devastated local farmers in the nation’s largest egg-producing state.
Making America Unsafe
- In California, Trump fired U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service employees who worked to keep the public informed during last month’s disastrous wildfires
- In Nevada, Trump fired one of the only federal scientists tasked with monitoring the water quality of Lake Mead, the country’s biggest reservoir upon which Southern Nevada relies for 90 percent of its drinking water.
- In Idaho, Trump fired dozens of National Forest Service employees working at Sawtooth and Payette National Forests who were responsible for enforcing local regulations like fire bans.
- In Florida, Trump fired a National Weather Service scientist responsible for making storm forecast models accurate.
- Trump also fired a hurricane hunter formerly employed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in South Florida.
- In Texas, local officials warned that Trump’s firing of hundreds of employees from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service would affect local residents who depend on forecasts for extreme heat, rain or drought, and big hurricanes to stay safe.
- In Georgia and Utah, Trump fired federal employees tasked with protecting the U.S. food system, including a 20-year Air Force veteran responsible for protecting US agricultural products and a postdoctoral researcher with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service running a project to help alfalfa growers in Western states control pests while protecting pollinating bees.
View the entire database here.
Published: Mar 31, 2025