Sen. Susan Collins did not vote for President Donald Trump’s signature piece of legislation, his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, a massive package of tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans financed by slashing an estimated $1 trillion from Medicaid. “I did the right thing for the people of Maine, and I …
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Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” — his law slashing taxes for the wealthy and health care for the poor — is getting a rebrand. After meeting with the president’s 2024 campaign team, Republican lawmakers are now calling their law a “working families tax plan.” This latest name, of course, is …
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Zohran Mamdani has the penthouse crowd aflutter. The Democratic mayoral nominee’s bold, simple plan to make New York affordable for everyday citizens — freeze the rents, make buses and child care free — would be funded by a meager two percent tax hike on New York’s millionaire class. The ultrawealthy …
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As lawmakers drafted what is poised to become the landmark legislative achievement of his second term, President Donald Trump told Republicans in Congress in May, “Don’t fuck around with Medicaid.” On Wednesday, as he met with holdouts on the “Big Beautiful Bill” to try to get it over the finish …
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Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” wouldn’t just force millions of poor people off their health insurance and food assistance to help pay for more tax cuts for the rich. The Trump tax bill would steer tens of billions of dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for detention capacity, employee …
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As the Senate debates the latest iteration of Donald Trump’s massive reconciliation package, the latest report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirms that the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” is, in fact, a massive giveaway to the rich, at the expense of the poor. According to a CBO report released on …
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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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Sabrina Bishop, a California home care worker, and her disabled patient, Ronald Penn, traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to warn lawmakers about the impact that Donald Trump and Republicans’ tax bill, which would massively cut Medicaid, will have on Americans who rely on home health care services. “We’re really …
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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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Donald Trump’s tax bill, which Republicans passed in the House of Representatives overnight on Thursday, will slash funding for Medicaid, food assistance, and Medicare to finance a new set of tax cuts for the rich. It also includes tax breaks for gun silencers. In a speech at 4 a.m. on …
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