Trump’s $1 billion a day 'failure' will 'hurt Republicans in the midterm elections'

U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. first lady Melania Trump, and U.S. Vice President JD Vance stand as members of military carry a transfer case during a dignified transfer of the remains of six U.S. Army service members.

With the November midterms looming and poised to be highly consequential, President Donald Trump’s failure to live up to one of his biggest promises could spell disaster for Republican electoral chances, says USA Today columnist Sara Pequeño. While broken promises are nothing new for Trump, even his most loyal supporters have been bailing on him over his expensive war abroad and its negative repercussions on quality of life at home.

While campaigning in 2024, at the core of Trump’s “America First” messaging were assertions like affordable child care and the protection of Medicare and Medicaid, along with an avoidance of foreign wars. Instead, the GOP has already slashed Medicare, with Trump recently declaring, “We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.”

After promising to keep the country out of war, Trump is now spending $1 billion a day on his wildly unpopular conflict with Iran. At the same time, he’s not only said that he won’t prioritize spending on healthcare and child care, but has proposed a budget that includes a $1.5 trillion increase in defense spending along with roughly $500 million on White House renovations, all while slashing domestic spending on healthcare, child care, housing, scientific research and more.

This already has many longtime MAGA supporters abandoning the president in droves. American First figures like Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Laura Ingraham have accused Trump of betraying the principles that his voters demanded in the first place. Far-right provocateur Alex Jones has not only criticized the president for similar reasons, saying that, if carried out, his threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure would constitute “war crimes,” but has questioned Trump’s mental capacity, saying, “The brain’s not doing too hot.” And MAGA-aligned comedians, musicians and even government officials have begun asking, “What was I thinking?”

With so many from the Trump coalition leaving or on their way out the door due to the president’s broken promises, Pequeño argues that this poses a major opportunity for his opponents.

“Trump’s failure to live up to his lofty promises is an opportunity for the Democrats to create a blue wave come November,” she asserts. “With affordability this low and Trump's tone-deafness this high, midterms will be theirs to lose.”

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