Donald Trump has been accused of acting out "revenge" on Blue states, with decisions affecting "vulnerable people".
Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider (Il) claims the president is overseeing ICE raids in Democratic states and "putting communities at risk" as a result. Speaking to Politico, Schneider said, "He’s attacking blue states out of revenge. If that’s in the form of sending in ICE, he sends in ICE."
"If it’s denying food and education to their children, which, to be clear, are America’s children, he’s gonna do that. What he is doing is seeking revenge at the cost of America’s most vulnerable people, putting those communities at risk."
Manhattan Democrat Liz Krueger says she is hardly surprised by the president's actions in Blue states as he made it clear he was going to "punish" the Democratic Party.
She said, "I’ll say one thing about our president: He told us he was going to do this. He told us he was going to punish blue states. We have to brace for impact, we have to use our legal skills, our amazing attorney general, and endless lawsuits to at least hold them back."
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has suggested Trump is using children as "political pawns" and that it shows the "depth of cruelty" his administration is capable of overseeing.
She said, "It’s this depth of cruelty. They think they’re going to get to me, but the kids are the political pawns in this process, and they’re not doing that calculation."
Analysis from Politico staffers Blake Jones, Jeremy B. White, and Nick Reisman suggested the "ammunition" Trump had at his disposal against Blue states could take down his political opponents.
They wrote, "The spending-focused line of attack from Trump marks an escalation in Trump’s already red-hot war on blue states."
"While hostilities between Trump and Democratic-led states on immigration intensify following shootings in Minnesota and Oregon, he is now moving more aggressively on a separate track to cut off states’ funding. And if “waste, fraud and abuse” is a familiar rallying cry for Republicans, it is now serving as fresh ammunition for Trump’s targeting of his political adversaries."