Mark Cuban, the employer and investor billionaire, believes that a “rural red recession” is coming and imminent due to the actions of the Trump administration.
In a post At the place of social networks Bluesky Friday, Cuban – which has more than 1.4 million followers on the platform – said: “All features, cancellation of subsidies and contracts with companies, the closure of offices, disproportionately affect small cities, cities and states.”
“His finances will be the other way around,” Cuban added.
In the days they followed, Cuban re -published a Daily Beast item Referring to a CNN video on the federal government’s job cuts in a city in the western republican virginia reliably, a new reiteration of the alliterative phrase.
In recent weeks, the Trump Administration and the so -called Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) have made cuts to the federal Department of education including millions to Financing of the K-12 grant locally as well as cuts in the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of veteran affairsamong others.
Protests for job cuts and financing to services such as the United States Postal Service and to finance farmers through the Department of Agriculture And the natural resource conservation service, both caused protests to Western Massachusetts last month.
States in general, blue or Democrats are usually Less dependent On the funding of the federal government compared to its red or republican counterparts.
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A 2025 Wallethub study He found that Alaska, Kentucky, west Virginia, Mississippi and South Carolina are the five most federally dependent states, all of which have federal delegations led by Republicans and have voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
For their part, the five states that were less based on federal funding, according to the same study, were New Jersey, California, Delaware, Massachusetts and Utah, all considered reliable states, except Utah.