Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) doubled down on Saturday on her flippant remarks about people dying due to Medicaid cuts in a new Instagram video that appeared to be recorded in a cemetery. During a town hall on Friday, Ernst was pressed about President Donald Trump’s tax bill, which would slash …
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Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a reverse-Robin Hood nightmare. It steals from the poor to give to the rich. The 1,038-page version that passed the House will also balloon the deficit by nearly $4 trillion. The Trump tax bill achieves this feat by extending (and in many cases expanding) …
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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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Follow all our Sean Combs trial coverage President Donald Trump said that he “would certainly look at the facts” when asked if he would consider pardoning Sean Combs, who’s currently on trial for federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Trump was asked about the possible pardon Friday, May 30, saying, …
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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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The Trump administration has plans to turn the idea of “remigration” — a term associated with the far-right in Europe and the forced removal of all immigrants back to their native countries — into an official federal office that will be dedicated to escalating deportations across the United States. In …
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Elon Musk’s use of ketamine was so intense during the 2024 campaign that he complained it was negatively affecting his bladder function, according to a New York Times report detailing the billionaire’s drug use as he joined President Donald Trump’s circle last year. The Times paints a picture of a …
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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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