He announced his backing of Ryan on Friday.
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Sen. Susan Collins of ME will not be voting for Donald Trump.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledge supporters during a campaign rally at the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Fla. on August 8, 2016.
The lifelong Republican from ME has penned a scathing review of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, questioning his suitability for the Oval Office. NBC’s Tracie Potts reports.
Trump has largely avoided policy specifics in his campaign, focusing instead on broad goals.
On Monday, Clinton will visit the battleground state of Florida, where she will tour a small brewery and hold two rallies. The Democratic nominee planned her own economic speech – also in Detroit – on Thursday to ensure Trump doesn’t get the last word on an issue resonating deeply with voters.
The Clinton campaign fired off a blast against the Trump plan Monday morning, arguing that it was rooted in big tax breaks for corporations and businesses and would likely lead to a recession.
Among his specific proposals will be allowing parents to fully deduct the cost of childcare from their taxable income. An organisation called the Michigan People’s Campaign is claiming responsibility.
Collins, who represents the state of ME in the US Senate, was no less scathing about Trump in her opinion piece – particularly with regard to his bullying of those less powerful and less prominent. Just over a third said she is not suited for the job.
Mr Trump later said he was “being sarcastic” when he made the remarks about hacking his rival’s emails. Under the plan, he said, highest-income earners would pay essentially the same amount as they do now because lower rates would be compensated by the elimination of deductions.
As for trade, which has been a centerpiece of his economic agenda, Trump calls for the U.S.to pull out of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal and for NAFTA to be renegotiated.
While the NY businessman has offered a few hints about his economic plan in previous speeches and on his website, today’s speech is created to expand upon those proposals and reassure nervous Republicans that Trump can stay on message in the area where he has a leg up on Democratic presidential candidate – handling the nation’s economy.
But Monday night’s Podesta statement is reigniting the issue.
“I am also deeply concerned that Mr.Trump’s lack of self-restraint and his barrage of ill-informed comments would make an already perilous world even more so”, she wrote.
The speech was interrupted more than a dozen times by protesters, who were escorted out by security. He first unveiled his tax plan last fall, framing it as a boon to the middle class. “I don’t know if you’ve seen the warning charts, but we have many, many bridges that are in danger of falling”.
But a host of independent groups crunching the numbers soon concluded otherwise.
With few exceptions, Trump provided more of a philosophical basis for an economic plan than a series of specifics. And a companion plan on reducing government spending, which he had promised would follow, never came.
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Stephen Moore, a conservative economist advising Trump, said the candidate is still working out specifics and hasn’t yet settled on the details of the plan.
