Jon Queally is managing editor of Common Dreams.
A new analysis reveals that the alleged $1 billion election year 'quid pro quo' offer that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made to executives of major oil company's could, if they agreed to the deal, bank them a handsome profit.
In Florida last month, not long before his meeting with oil executives, Trump told a different crowd of 'rich as hell' supporters gathered at Mar-a-Lago: 'We're gonna give you tax cuts, we're gonna pay of our debt.' The problem with the second half of that claim is presented in a recent CBO report which found that another wave of tax cuts like those passed by the GOP in 2017 would skyrocket the national debt by an estimated $4.6 trillion over the next ten years.
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