VIRGINIA – New reporting from the Richmond Times-Dispatch details how Winsome Earle-Sears is pushing Donald Trump’s agenda that is killing Virginia jobs and threatening to rip health care away from hundreds of thousands of Virginians. Sears previously downplayed and dismissed the attacks on Virginia jobs saying “the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing… and I don’t understand why” and has said she will help Trump “get the job done.” Sears has repeatedly refused to comment on cuts to Medicaid and even ejected a reporter from her event yesterday to avoid answering.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: In Fairfax, Earle-Sears pushes Trump agenda with national GOP leader
- Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears came to deep-blue Northern Virginia with the leader of the national Republican party on Tuesday to push the agenda of President Donald Trump [...].
- “I don’t want to comment yet about things that aren’t set in concrete, [...],” Earle-Sears told news media after a brief public appearance with Whatley in front of campaign volunteers and local party officials.
- She offered similar responses to questions about protecting the state’s economy, particularly in Northern Virginia, from aggressive attempts by Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency to slash the federal workforce and spending that underpin the state and regional economies.
- She stepped carefully around issues that rouse opposition from Democrats and some independents concerned about how Trump’s aggressive actions of the last nearly five months affect Virginia’s economy, jobs and public safety net programs. Those programs, including Medicaid and food stamps, would lose hundreds of millions in federal dollars under Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that the U.S. House of Representatives adopted last month to pay for tax cuts and robust immigration enforcement.
- Democrats criticized Earle-Sears early in the campaign for publicized remarks in which they said she appeared to make light of job losses.
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