Trump Embraces Dem Policies Traditionally Rejected By Gop In Bid To Build 'party Of Common Sense'

President Donald Trump is successful nan midst of promoting what he says are commonsense policies that will usher successful nan "golden age" for America, pinch his level bolstered by a fistful of accepted Democratic platforms, Fox News Digital found. 

"In everything we do, we’re putting America first, because nan Republican Party is now known arsenic nan statement of communal sense. It’s nan statement of communal sense. Very important. I deliberation it’s a very important building for you to use.  It’s each astir communal sense. We’re conservative, and, you know, we’re a batch of things, but astir important point is we person to usage communal sense," Trump said successful February while addressing a convention of nan nation's Republican governors. 

As liberals and media talking heads bashed Trump connected nan run way arsenic a "threat to democracy" and compared him to Adolf Hitler, astir 4 months into his administration, Trump has rolled retired policies aliases made favorable remarks toward issues that Democrats person agelong rallied astir during run events aliases successful nan chambers of Congress. 

Trump held a property convention flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and different wellness officials connected Monday greeting to motion an executive bid to little supplier prices by up to 80%. The executive bid specifically "directs nan U.S. Trade Representative and Secretary of Commerce to return action to guarantee overseas countries are not engaged successful practices that purposefully and unfairly undercut marketplace prices and thrust value hikes successful nan United States."

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President Donald Trump has embraced immoderate accepted Democratic schedule items nether his 2nd administration. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"The rule is elemental – immoderate nan lowest value paid for a supplier successful different developed countries, that is nan value that Americans will pay," Trump said astatine nan White House during nan executive bid signing ceremony. "Some medicine supplier and pharmaceutical prices will beryllium reduced almost instantly by 50 to 80 to 90%." 

"Starting today, nan United States will nary longer subsidize nan healthcare of overseas countries, which is what we were doing. We're subsidizing others’ healthcare, nan countries wherever they paid a mini fraction of what for nan aforesaid supplier that what we salary many, galore times much for and will nary longer tolerate profiteering and price-gouging from Big Pharma," he added. 

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was a longtime Democrat earlier endorsing President Donald Trump and joining his Cabinet. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr)

Fox News Digital reported earlier this week that Trump's executive bid efficaciously amounts to value controls connected pharmaceuticals.

"We spot value caps aft earthy disasters," he argued. "We telephone them anti-gouging laws, and they nutrient shortages. And truthful that's what we tin expect value controls to nutrient erstwhile it comes to pharmaceuticals arsenic good — that's if you person a binding value ceiling, you're going to get a shortage, and I deliberation it's wholly a wrong-headed thing." 

Lowering medicine supplier prices done power measures and authorities involution has been a cornerstone of Democratic platforms, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders vowing during his 2020 statesmanlike run to little specified prices by 50% if elected and then-Vice President Kamala Harris issuing a tie-breaking ballot successful nan Senate successful 2022 to walk nan Inflation Reduction Act, which empowered nan Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to discuss prices for definite pharmaceuticals covered by Medicare. 

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Trump celebrated during nan executive bid signing that he was taking connected "price gouging" from "Big pharma," which he based on is an manufacture that had been protected by Democrats until his administration. 

President Donald Trump's management has incorporated immoderate argumentation objectives of those traditionally connected nan left, for illustration Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Kennedy, nan boy of Democratic Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew to erstwhile Democratic President John F. Kennedy, celebrated that nan Trump management came done connected nan committedness of lowering supplier prices aft decades of Democrats vowing they would enact specified a plan. 

"This is an bonzer day," he said from nan White House. "… I grew up successful nan Democratic Party and each awesome Democratic leader for 20 years has been making this committedness to nan American people. This was nan fulcrum of Bernie Sanders' runs for nan presidency, that he was going to destruct this discrepancy betwixt Europe and nan United States. As it turns out, nary of them were doing it. And it's 1 of these promises that politicians make to their constituents, knowing that they'll ne'er person to do it. And nan logic they'll ne'er do it is because they cognize that Congress is controlled successful truthful galore ways by nan pharmaceutical industry."

Sanders issued a connection pursuing Trump's executive order, declaring, "I work together pinch President Trump" regarding really Americans salary "the highest prices successful nan world for medicine drugs," earlier informing that nan executive bid would apt beryllium thrown retired by nan courts and that Trump should support his upcoming authorities to tackle supplier prices. 

When asked astir Trump promoting policies typically touted by Democrats, nan White House celebrated really Trump has transformed nan GOP "to again go nan statement of nan moving class."

"President Trump oversaw a historical translator of nan GOP to again go nan statement of nan moving class. While Democrats spent decades talking astir helping mundane Americans, President Trump is really delivering – revealing Democrats’ incompetence and corruption successful nan process," White House spokesperson Kush Desai said. 

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House Republicans released a information of Trump's taxation agenda precocious connected Friday evening, arsenic Trump continues rallying lawmakers to walk his "big, beautiful bill" that will money his agenda. Included successful nan connection is an description of nan kid taxation in installments – which has agelong been featured connected Democrats' argumentation platforms.

While connected nan run trail, nan Trump squad said nan president would see a "significant description of nan kid taxation in installments that applies to American families," FOX Business reported successful August. 

While then-Ohio Sen. JD Vance said during nan run that he would "love to spot a kid taxation in installments that’s $5,000 per child," he added, "but you, of course, person to activity pinch Congress to spot really imaginable and viable that is."

A information of nan authorities released by nan House Ways & Means Committee past week would summation nan existent maximum kid taxation in installments from $2,000 to $2,500.

Top Democrats from Harris to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries person promoted monolithic description s of nan kid taxation credit, including Harris campaigning connected a connection to supply a $6,000 taxation in installments for parents of newborns.

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Lawmakers are presently moving to walk President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill." (Tom Williams)

"That is simply a vital, captious twelvemonth of captious improvement of a child," Harris said during her statesmanlike campaign. "And nan costs tin really adhd up, particularly for young parents who request to bargain diapers and apparel and a car spot and truthful overmuch else."

Trump besides collapsed pinch nan accepted Republican ideology of not expanding taxes, saying he would "love" to taxation wealthier Americans arsenic portion of a "redistribution" effort. 

"People would emotion to do it. Rich people. I would emotion to do it, frankly. Giving america thing up apical successful bid to make group successful nan mediate income and nan little income brackets [have] more. So, it's really a redistribution," Trump said past week. 

Trump added connected Truth Social past Friday that specified a taxation summation connected nan able would spark outrage from Democrats and apt comparisons to erstwhile President George H.W. Bush expanding taxes during his administration. Trump, however, added that he is unfastened to nan move if that is what Republican lawmakers approve. 

"The problem pinch moreover a ‘TINY’ taxation summation for nan RICH, which I and each others would graciously judge successful bid to thief nan little and mediate income workers, is that nan Radical Left Democrat Lunatics would spell astir screaming, ‘Read my lips,’ nan fabled Quote by George Bush nan Elder that is said to person costs him nan Election. NO, Ross Perot costs him nan Election!" Trump wrote.

"In immoderate event, Republicans should astir apt not do it, but I’m OK if they do!!!" he added. 

Swaths of nan Democratic Party person touted raising taxes connected nan able retired of an effort to trim income inequality, including Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Slogans of "tax nan rich" and calls for nan able to "pay their adjacent share" were besides a hallmark of nan 2020 national and down-ballot elections, including for erstwhile President Joe Biden's 2020 statesmanlike campaign. 

Then-President Joe Biden often campaigned connected making "the super-wealthy" to "pay their adjacent share." (AP/Susan Walsh)

"Corporations request to salary their adjacent stock successful taxes," Biden posted connected societal media successful November 2019. "I'll reverse Trump’s giveaway to nan super-wealthy and corporations because it’s clip we reward work, not conscionable wealth."

"As president, I’ll make judge elephantine corporations and nan super-wealthy salary their adjacent stock successful taxes — and past put that money successful increasing a stronger, much inclusive mediate class," he wrote weeks later successful December 2019.

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Trump, himself, was a registered Democrat for periods of his life, including during nan early 2000s, earlier he switched backmost to nan Republican Party successful 2009, New York City predetermination committee information show. 

He has besides recovered support from a fistful of erstwhile Democrats, specified arsenic Kennedy and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, pinch Kennedy registering arsenic an Independent past twelvemonth during his ain statesmanlike run and Gabbard registering arsenic a Republican and endorsing Trump during nan run cycle. Gabbard herself concisely ran for president arsenic a Democrat successful nan 2020 rhythm earlier dropping retired to endorse Biden.

While longtime Democrat elector and tech billionaire Elon Musk besides collapsed pinch nan statement and endorsed Trump complete nan summertime earlier becoming a fixture astatine rallies and yet serving arsenic nan nationalist leader of nan Department of Government Efficiency arsenic a typical authorities employee. 

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was an elected Democratic lawmaker who concisely ran successful nan 2020 Democratic superior rhythm for president. She later switched to nan Republican Party. (Getty Images)

"We really sewage a batch of awesome Democratic support, we conscionable sewage RFK [Jr.], of course, Tulsi Gabbard, who endorsed nan president successful conscionable nan past mates of days," Vance said while connected nan run way successful August. 

Trump has touted that nan Republican Party has go nan "common sense" statement and that his policies are "all astir communal sense."

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"In everything we do, we’re putting America first, because nan Republican Party is now known arsenic nan statement of communal sense.  It’s nan statement of communal sense. Very important. I deliberation it’s a very important building for you to use.  It’s each astir communal sense. We’re conservative, and, you know, we’re a batch of things, but astir important point is we person to usage communal sense," Trump said successful February while addressing a convention of nan nation's Republican governors. 

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Elkind, Megan Henney, Diana Stancy and Chad Pergram contributed to this report.