President Donald Trump and Republicans’ “big, beautiful” tax bill already promises to leave millions of Americans without access to Medicaid and food assistance programs. The GOP is using Congress’ massive budget reconciliation bill to slash taxes on the wealthy and enact a host of right-wing policy dreams, and among them …
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Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed the House of Representatives early this morning, and the president couldn’t be more thrilled about being one step closer to kicking millions of Americans off their health care coverage and food assistance programs. “THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL” has PASSED the House of …
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The Republican budget bill remains in rocky territory after a night of contentious, acrimonious debate, during which Democrats repeatedly accused the GOP of using the cover of darkness to attempt to jam through unpopular legislation. The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would make permanent President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax …
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Republican lawmakers are leaving the finishing touches on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” to slash taxes for the rich and gut America’s already meager safety net for the poor — and they are working to ensure the health care cuts are sufficiently destructive and potentially damaging politically. Under an …
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The reconciliation bill President Donald Trump and Republicans are working to pass through Congress is chock-full of troubling provisions, but the tax plan ultimately boils down to a massive financial break for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of social programs that benefit the less fortunate — most notably Medicaid. …
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With Donald Trump’s tax and agenda bill on the verge of collapse in the House of Representatives, the president is demanding that the GOP get it together to ensure the legislation becomes law. “Republicans MUST UNITE behind, ‘THE ONE, BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL!’” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social, claiming that …
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Four months into Donald Trump’s presidency, his and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to “Make America Healthy Again” appears to be taking shape: It consists of throwing millions of Americans off their health insurance plans, making Americans pay more for health care in various ways, and slashing health spending and …
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As Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers ponder how best to cut Medicaid in order to pay for new tax boons for the rich, doctors, hospital executives, and advocates are warning that changes to the nation’s health insurance program for the poor could harm patients, quickly cause rural hospitals to close, …
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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a stark warning that if Republicans in Congress and the Trump White House cut Medicaid, “People will die. Children will die.” She is joined by other Democrats who are raising the alarm about the planned cuts. Grisham was speaking from experience. When her …
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As Republicans and Democrats prepare to face off about Medicaid cuts in next week’s Energy and Commerce Committee meetings at the House of Representatives, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is vehemently speaking out against threats to Medicaid. “They’re robbing people in order to hand it over to the rich,” the progressive New …
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