Donald Trump used the antisemitic term “Shylocks” while speaking at an event in Iowa Thursday night. The president employed the slur to describe predatory loan lenders while discussing the newly passed domestic tax and spending bill, which he has dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill.” “Think of that: no death tax, …
Read More »Trump Signs Bill to Kick Millions Off Health Care Into Law
The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” —Donald Trump and the GOP’s sprawling legislative packagethat will cut taxes on the rich, supercharge the administration’s immigration raids and arrests, and gut green-energy initiatives while kicking millions of Americans off their health care and other social services — is now law. The president signed …
Read More »Inside the CIA's Secret Afghan Army
I t was nearly midnight in February 2021 when Nasir Andar’s team of soldiers pinpointed the location of the suicide bomber’s house behind a police station in Jalalabad, a city in eastern Afghanistan. They crept up to the gate and called up the rest of the assault force, who would …
Read More »Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was 'Tortured' in El Salvador: Lawyers
Kilmar Abrego Garcia described a harrowing account of his detainment during the nearly three months he was wrongfully imprisoned in El Salvador thanks to Donald Trump’s administration, claiming he was beaten, deprived of sleep, and psychologically tortured. According to court papers filed by his lawyers on Wednesday, upon his arrival …
Read More »They're Fighting Polluters. Trump's Tax Bill Guts Their Funding
The Republican-led House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s profoundly unpopular tax and spending bill. It has been called “the most regressive U.S. tax and budget law in at least the past four decades — and possibly ever,” according to researchers at Yale University. Trump’s …
Read More »Hakeem Jeffries Breaks House Record With Speech Bashing Trump's Tax Bill
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for eight hours and 44 minutes on the House floor on Thursday, in a marathon speech delaying the passage of = Donald Trump’s Medicaid-and-food-assistance slashing, tax-gift-for-the-wealthy abomination of a reconciliation bill. The speech breaks the record for longest ever delivered on the House floor, …
Read More »Congress Officially Passes Trump's Bill to Kick Millions Off Medicaid
Republicans are clapping each other on the back after passing one of the most destructive pieces of legislation to ever target the American poor and middle class. Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” belly-flopped through Congress not because it makes sense economically, environmentally, or morally — but …
Read More »The Worst Parts of Trump and the GOP's Disastrous Tax Bill
Republicans in Congress have obeyed Donald Trump and passed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sweeping reconciliation package that pairs massive tax breaks for the wealthy with massive cuts to Medicaid and other social services. The bill’s journey through Capitol Hill has been fraught. Democrats were universally opposed to the …
Read More »The Supreme Court Will Rule on States Banning Trans Athletes From Girls' Sports
The Supreme Court will weigh in on state efforts to bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports. On Thursday, the court accepted two cases involving transgender students challenging state-level bans in Idaho and West Virginia that bar their participation in high school and collegiate level sports leagues. …
Read More »'YES!': Republican Celebrates Americans Losing Health Care in Deleted Post
As millions of low-income and disabled Americans are at risk of losing their health insurance thanks to the passing of Donald Trumpand the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) joined Republicans in celebrating one of the most destructive pieces of legislation in U.S. history. Van Orden …
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