Rachel Maddow Shows The Political Friction Being Created Against Trump By Funding Freeze

Rachel Maddow detailed the consequences to the American people of Trump's funding freeze and how it is creating political friction against Trump and his party.

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Trump’s funding freeze and firing of federal employees comes at a cost, not just to those who are losing their jobs but also to the American people, especially when they try to access services from their government.

Much of what Trump is doing is very unpopular, and as Rachel Maddow pointed out the consequences of his actions will fall on the American people.

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Maddow said:

 They really are still planning on cutting off funding to sterilize the instruments that they use for surgery because nothing's too good for our veterans, right? Or for our seniors. Um, if you want to get disability payments through Social Security, you may need to do a hearing to establish your level of disability.

Trump just cut off the funding that pays for medical experts to testify at disability hearings. After thousands of people were fired by Trump at the Social Security Administration, The Washington Post reports today, quote, Delays in reviews of disability claims and hearings before administrative law judges are already starting, quote, Wait times for basic phone service at Social Security.

Those wait times have grown in some cases to hours. Hours long wait times when you're calling Social Security for help right now. We're also seeing record wait times at the entrances to America's national parks. Like this more than one mile long line outside Big Bend National Park in Texas on President's Day weekend.

This happened right after Trump fired roughly a thousand employees from the National Park Service just last month. Today, The New York Times reports that the Park Service just got in new data that actually shows some great news. about last year. Last year, America's national parks had more visitors than ever before in U.S. history, which is great for last year, but they also obtained an internal Trump administration memo from this week. Saying they will not be publicizing this news about record attendance at America's National Parks because, well, that's an awkward thing to brag about while you're firing all the people that work there because supposedly they're not needed.

The National Parks Conservation Association telling the Times today, quote, The National Parks Service just reported the highest visitation in its history as the administration conducts massive firings and threatens to close visitor centers and public safety facilities. America's National Parks are really popular.

Firing the people who work at the parks is not popular. So they're trying just not to talk about those two things in the same sentence. But none of the stuff that they're doing is popular.