President Donald Trump and Republican leaders keep pretending they aren’t cutting Medicaid with their new tax bill, which will further enrich the wealthy and pay for it in part by significantly slashing Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans. Trump, who has repeatedly promised to protect …
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House Speaker Mike Johnson wants you to know he is a very “busy” man. Too busy, in fact, to care about Donald Trump‘s blatant corruption. When confronted with legitimate concerns that Trump is using the power of the presidency to enrich himself by launching a crypto meme coin and allowing …
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Speaker Mike Johnson defended Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” that the House passed last week in the middle of the night, claiming the newly added Medicaid work requirements are “moral.” Meanwhile, the legislation will hand the rich a gigantic tax cut. “We looked at your home state, and the …
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This morning,theHouse of Representativespassed Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which takes a sledgehammer to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),a law that created hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs and over billions in green energy investments across the nation. The reconciliation bill enshrines Trump’s 2017 tax cuts into law …
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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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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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The House’s passage of the SAVE Act last week is the culmination of Donald Trump’s election-denial movement, which has pushed hundreds of laws around the country targeting non-existent voter fraud based on Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The SAVE Act — which requires documentary proof …
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Republicans are playing a game of chicken with Democrats over funding the government. And you’ll never believe who looks like they’re ready to capitulate. Government funding is due to run out Friday at midnight, which will spark a partial government shutdown absent the passage of a new stop-gap spending bill, …
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