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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 …

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, …

Judges in federal courts have issued two major blows against the Trump administration’s multi-pronged immigration crackdown, ruling on Wednesday that the government cannot block undocumented migrants who enter the United States outside of authorized ports of entry from applying for asylum, and in a separate ruling that it cannot revoke …

The Senate passed Donald Trump’s tax bill on Tuesday, sending the latest version of the legislation back to the House for more debate. The so-called “Big Beautiful BIll” slashes taxes for millionaires and billionaires, strips millions of lower-income Americans of health insurance, and adds trillions to the national debt. It …

As Elon Musk continues to bash the Republican reconciliation bill, President Donald Trump is threatening consequences against the man who dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into his 2024 campaign, and who just months ago was effectively operating as his co-president. Musk’s opposition to the bill led to an explosive …

President Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is far from beautiful and deeply unpopular with the public. Battling concerns from voters about increased barriers to accessing programs like Medicaid and food assistance; massive transfers of wealth from less fortunate Americans to corporations and the rich; and the …

Senate Republicans have passed President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sprawling legislative package that is expected to kick millions off their health insurance, codify big tax cuts for the wealthy, give a massive funding boost to the administration’s mass deportation efforts, and screw over the nation’s poor with …

In earlier drafts, the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” included a provision that would have ended Medicaid payments for “gender transition procedures” for people of all ages, and introduced narrowly rigid definitions of “sex,” “female,” and “male” that some experts believe would have far-reaching implications, beyond access to healthcare. However, amid …

Much like President Donald Trump, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is no stranger to taking advantage of the trappings of elected office to make a quick buck or glitz up her surroundings. In 2021, public records showed that the then governor of South Dakota spent almost $70,000 installing …

If Republicans manage to pass Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” millions of Americans will lose access to health care, food assistance, and other critical public support programs. One would hope that Democrats — despite being the minority in both chambers — would put up the strongest fight they can …