We have a question for the 34 percent of New Jersey voters who still approve of Donald Trump: Why would you support a president who routinely trashes the state you call home?



Sure, he helicopters in to play golf, and made millions from fleecing investors and small businesses in Atlantic City. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has profited from property holdings all over our state.



Yet Trump makes it clear he doesn't care one iota about the people who actually live here - not even the "forgotten" ones he vowed to focus on. Instead, he is out to punish us all, or use us as hostages for his own ends.

So why is Donald Trump sticking it to New Jersey?



The latest example is the new rail tunnel under the Hudson, which Trump wants to torpedo, just to spite New York Democrat Chuck Schumer. It's the most vital infrastructure project for New Jersey, the metro region and the entire nation.



It would allow us to finally close and fix our 107-year-old tunnels, whose walls are being eaten away by salts left from Hurricane Sandy. Yet while Trump will gladly send billions to southern states damaged by hurricanes, not a penny must go to this tunnel to stave off commuter Armageddon, or he will shut down the government.



Thanks, Mr. President.



Let's not forget, too, that Trump immediately exempted Florida's coasts from his proposal to permit oil drilling, on the grounds that they are "unique," "heavily reliant on tourism," and could suffer from a spill. But not the Jersey Shore. Hmm.



His government will subsidize farmers in the heartland with federal money, but not tourism along our coastline, where Trump eliminated funding to test for feces in our beach water. He also sought to cut $330 million to clean up our worst toxic sites, of which New Jersey has more than any other state.



His push to repeal the Affordable Care Act would have yanked insurance from many more people in New Jersey than elsewhere, since we more greatly expanded coverage. The percentage of uninsured would have increased at a higher rate in Republican-led districts.



And his continuing efforts to sabotage this law are hiking premiums on more people in those districts, making insurance unaffordable for thousands of them.



Trump's budget would have slashed food stamps for seniors like Carol Roes in Ocean County, a grandmother who lives on just $9,000 a year in Social Security and voted for him; affecting more people in New Jersey than in other states.



And the president weaponized the tax code against us, too, forcing us to help pay for his tax breaks favoring the wealthy, by capping our ability to deduct what we pay in state and local taxes from our federal tax bills.



His recent tariffs on steel and aluminum also hurt New Jersey disproportionately. They're expected to cost our businesses an extra $477 million, more than in all but seven other states, according to the Tax Foundation, a conservative think-tank.



New Jerseyans were already sending billions of dollars more in taxes to Washington than we get back in services, unlike red states. Trump is only making that imbalance worse. And as he seeks political payback, his supporters are just collateral damage.

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