Donald Trump tends to the left in an attempt to revive advanced reconnaissance numbers

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Donald Trump won the elections last year by pledged to rid America of the extremist leftists. Now it adopts some of their policies.

The President also ordered pharmaceutical companies Reducing drug prices for us On Monday, the Minister of Republican Health admitted clear echoes of the Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders in the president’s plan.

“This was a focal point for Barne Sanders for the presidency,” said Robert F. Kennedy Junior, referring to the veteran legislator from Vermont. “I have two children of Democrats (and Big Bernie Sanders, and when I told them that this would happen, they had tears in their eyes.”

Inspiration from the popular left is not limited to Trump’s efforts to reduce the cost of high medicine in America.

In recent weeks, hold the policies that he had a progressive habit Democrats -Beginning with high taxes to enforce the most stringent to rich prices-and make it its own, to the discomfort of many in his party.

I think Trump Liz Banders, the administrative director of politics and calling in Capitol Hill, said these things are popular and that he is a man who loves to be famous.

Trump’s transformation in certain areas of the tax and health policy came with the outbreak of his survey on his dealings with the economy and the skin of the market from his identification plans, which quickly returned.

It may also look forward to defusing democratic attacks before the mid-term elections 2026. During the first period of Trump, Democrats regained the majority of them in the House of Representatives by criticizing the president and his party to give the giant tax cuts to the wealthy while seeking to reduce access to health care of the medium and low-depths- a fate that the president wants to avoid in his second term.

But change also reflects a broader campaign than Trump to reformulate Republicans such as the working class party rather than work – a shift that started during his first term but more clear during the second.

Last week, the president said that he would support an increase in the highest income tax rate for individuals who receive more than $ 2.5 million annually to 39.7 percent of 37 percent, and challenges his traditional party opposition to any tax increases.

“It is really a redistribution, and I am ready to do this if they want,” Trump told reporters at the Oval Office. “I would like to be able to give people in a less large segment by giving up some of what I have.”

Earlier in the year, Trump supported the elimination of the preferential tax treatment of private stock box profits and hedge fund profits – known as “reserved interest” – in a shot via the Wall Street Arc.

With the executive order on Monday about the prices of medicines, it threatened to impose many measures that would also be a curse for Republicans, among them export controls for pharmaceutical companies that sell their products in countries with low -price drugs.

Trump also said that the Federal Trade Committee should be ready to take an “enforcement” to treat any “anti -competition” behavior in this sector.

Sanders seemed to support work from the White House. “I agree with President Trump: it is an angry thing that the American people, to a large extent, pay the highest prices in the world for the prescribed medicines,” Sinator Vermont said in a statement.

“But let’s be clear,” he added. “The problem is not that the price of prescribed drugs is very low in Europe and Canada. The problem is that the unusual greedy medicine industry achieved more than 100 billion dollars last year by tearing the American people.”

Trump has always had a popular economic line. He has greatly shone in his protective commercial policies, but he is now more clear in other areas.

During the 2024 presidential race against Kamala Harris, a series of tax measures- including canceling the income tax on tips and additional work- suggested to support Americans of the low and medium-class.

But his campaign also carried Harris due to “price controls” and “socialism” when I suggested measures to control groceries that included a federal ban in overcoming prices similar to his recent threats to pharmaceutical companies.

Whether Trump’s embrace of Sanders’s popularity will become clear later this year if he is committed to his plan to eliminate pharmaceutical companies and if he is able to obtain preferred tax measures-including high taxes on the wealthy-through Congress.

“I do not think that the center of gravity within the Republican Party has moved whether the higher taxes are good. What has changed is the willingness of the Republicans to keep pace with some of these policies that have been strongly associated with the Democrats.”

At the present time, Trump’s economic plans-which include large-scale tax discounts and deep spending discounts on government programs that help low-income families-are inadvertently benefiting from high-income families and harmful to the rest of the Americans, and therefore its popularity is still mostly performance.

“If populism is a horseshoe, it sometimes climbed to the right edge of that,” Panckett said. “(But) It is difficult for me to say that we have a popular president when the policies he places in their place actually contradict his speech.”