In an interview with Fox News, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) said the Republican Party must be the party of working people. He's either just telling an enormous lie, or he has completely lost touch with reality.
Hawley is a far right-wing Republican, and supports the party's current economic policies. Those economic policies would have to be radically changed if they were to benefit workers. Consider this:
* The last tax cut passed by the Republicans benefitted the rich far more than workers. The rich got about 82% of the cuts, and their cuts were permanent. The few cuts that went to workers were temporary, and scheduled to disappear after only a few years.
* Every single Republican, in both the House and Senate, voted against the $1.9 trillion COVID Relief Bill, which gave badly-needed checks to working Americans and continued pay to millions of unemployed workers.
* The GOP opposes labor unions -- which allow workers to negotiate on an even basis with large companies, both for fair pay and safe working conditions.
* The GOP opposes raising the minimum wage ($7.25 an hour currently). They would happily leave millions of workers in poverty. Raising the minimum wage would lift millions out of poverty, and help workers making above it by putting an upward pressure on all wages.
* The GOP opposes the government helping workers to get health insurance at a cost they can afford. For Republicans, health care is a product to be sold only to those who can afford it -- not a right of every person.
To be blunt, the Republican Party (including Hawley) doesn't support any policy that would help working Americans -- and anyone who says they do is just telling a huge LIE!
