Sen. Joni Ernst is encouraging her constituents to think big-picture about the Medicaid cuts in the “big, beautiful” bill President Donald Trump and House Republicans passed last week. The Iowa Republican tried to justify the cuts —which are expected to kick at least 10 million people off the health care …
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court dealt a body blow to America’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act. The court issued a unanimous decision that will buttress the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to gut the law and fast track fossil fuel projects. Environmental advocates contend that the result of …
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It’s Elon Musk’s last day as an official employee of the federal government, “but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way” — at least according to President Donald Trump’s announcement of his parting press conference with the billionaire. In an Oval Office presser that …
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President Donald Trump‘s assault of theSmithsonianInstitution and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives continued on Friday. The president announced on Truth Social that he was firing Kim Sajet, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and accused her of being “a highly partisan person.” “Upon the request and recommendation …
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Donald Trump was blocked by a federal court on Wednesday from imposing a sprawling set of import taxes on nearly every country. The ruling was in response to two separate lawsuits by businesses and state officials who accused the president of overstepping his authority to issue those tariffs, leaving them …
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Elon Musk’s time in the Trump administration was short, but by no means merciful. As the 130 days of Musk’s “special employee” status in the White House expire, the world’s richest man is leaving the government with shattered public approval, furious investors, and a to-go bag of grift and corruption …
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President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have released the first report authored by the so-called Make America Healthy Again Commission — and it’s riddled with citation errors and even outright fake research. The “MAHA Report: Make Our Children Healthy Again,” which was released …
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White House officials claimed to be the victims of a judicial coup amid a battle between federal courts to determine the legality of President Donald Trump‘s attempts to unilaterally impose potentially economically ruinous tariffs on the bulk of U.S. imports. On Wednesday, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of …
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Donald Trump’s administration has appealed to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to bless his effort to deport a group of migrants to South Sudan, a war-torn African country, with little notice and in express violation of a judge’s order. The high court has already smacked down the administration’s efforts …
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After spending months lying to the American public on behalf of the Trump administration, billionaire Elon Musk is now performing distress over Republicans passing deficit-increasing tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. In an interview with CBS News at the headquarters of SpaceX, Musk said that he was “disappointed to see …
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