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<p>During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump issued regular promises to “take care” of ordinary Americans. He mentioned two groups in particular: the inner-city poor (who, for Trump, were a synecdoche for black Americans) and the rural and Rust Belt victims of the opioid crisis. “First, we have to support locally based and locally run clinics, and we gotta close up the border,” he said during a <a href="http://www.unionleader.com/article/20151111/NEWS0605/151119828/-1/mobile?template=mobileart">November 2015 stop in New Hampshire</a>. “In the meantime, people are getting hooked, and we’re going to take care of those people.” Just before the election, he detailed his plans for dealing with addiction in America’s rural and post-industrial communities. “I want to dramatically expand access to treatment slots and end Medicaid policies that obstruct inpatient treatment,” he said, in a <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-remarks-in-portsmouth-nh">speech</a> that called for more federal resources to reduce and treat opioid addiction.</p>
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<p>Trump was less specific when speaking about inner cities—which he routinely described as lawless “war zones” of poverty and crime—but there, too, he said he wanted to help. “The African-American community has been taken for granted for decades by the Democratic Party. It’s time to break with the failures of the past—I want to offer Americans a new future,” he said last year in <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/full-text-donald-trumps-speech-on-227095">remarks to supporters in Wisconsin</a>.</p>
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<p>Those were Trump’s promises, building blocks of his image during the campaign, that of a caring, competent businessman. Enough voters—or at least, enough white voters—bought that image to give him an Electoral College victory, and thus the White House. Now, less than two months into his presidency, Trump is betraying both promises (and both groups of voters) in dramatic form. That this isn’t a surprise—as a businessman, Trump was notorious for <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/">cheating partners and shortchanging customers</a>—doesn’t make it any less shocking.</p>
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<p>The picture for cities is as bleak. According to budget documents <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-considers-6-billion-cut-to-hud-budget/2017/03/08/1757e8e8-03ab-11e7-b1e9-a05d3c21f7cf_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.70e4eade6d07">obtained</a> by the <em>Washington Post</em>, the White House is mulling more than $6 billion in cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This would help pay for Trump’s promised increase of $54 billion for the Department of Defense. These cuts, which amount to 14 percent of HUD’s budget, would fall hardest on public housing residents as well as recipients of housing vouchers. They would slash $1.3 billion from funds for repairing public housing units, $300 million from rental assistance payments (including vouchers for homeless veterans), and $4 billion in community planning and development grants, eliminating programs to combat urban decline and poverty.</p>
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<p>All of this suffering would be compounded by the rest of Trump’s agenda, from the “<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/03/trumpcare_is_already_hanging_on_life_support.html">reverse Robin Hood</a>” moves of the American Health Care Act to <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/house-republicans-plan-overhaul-nations-food-stamps-program/">proposed cuts to food stamps</a> and other assistance for the poor. The president’s promised aid isn’t coming. What is coming, however, is increased spending on law enforcement, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-will-again-use-private-prisons/2017/02/23/da395d02-fa0e-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.69b423dd6b57">new contracts with private prisons</a>, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/09/trump-criminal-justice-reform-police-protections-obama">support for draconian policing strategies</a>. Trump will “assist” the urban disadvantaged by criminalizing them even further.</p>
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