06/01/2026
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BREAKING: OUTSMARTING TRUMP — Hawaii just taxed millionaires to replace the food stamps and Medicaid that Trump ripped away from poor families.
While the national Democratic Party debates whether to move left or right, Hawaii just answered the question by doing both at once — and it wasn't even close.
Governor Josh Green signed Senate Bill 3125 last week, creating a 13% income tax bracket for joint filers earning over $1 million, while preserving tax cuts for more than 90% of Hawaii households earning under $350,000. Then he signed a separate $31 million emergency funding package to replace the Medicaid and food assistance that Trump's administration slashed.
The Trump regime cut food assistance. Hawaii taxed the rich to put it back.
Here's what makes this story even more remarkable: it passed with Republican votes. Every Republican senator voted yes. Six of ten House Republicans voted yes or yes with reservations, including House Minority Leader Lauren Matsumoto, who called the tax relief "a step in the right direction."
The only full-throated ideological objection came from one Republican who argued that taxing rich people means they have less money to give their employees — the standard trickle-down argument that polls have thoroughly discredited. One person made it. The rest voted yes.
This isn't just good policy. It's a roadmap.
Hawaii lost nearly $3 billion in federal support from Trump's reckless cuts to Medicaid and food assistance. Governor Green looked at that gap, looked at his state's wealthiest residents, and made a straightforward decision: they pay.
The national Democratic Party has spent months agonizing over whether progressive economics can win broad coalitions. Hawaii just demonstrated it can — in a bipartisan vote, during a moment when Americans are watching Republican economic promises collapse in real time. Tariffs have cost the average family more than $1,700. Medicaid cuts are landing on people already struggling. The One Big Beautiful Bill is taking food from children.
In that environment, defending tax breaks for millionaires while cutting school lunches is a losing argument. Even some Republicans in Hawaii figured that out.
Progressive economic policy paired with tangible relief for working families isn't just base politics. It's majority politics.
Hawaii proved it. The rest of the Democratic Party should be paying attention.
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