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Tragedy Strikes Texas, and Some Experts Blame Trump Cuts for Devastation

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On July 4, tragedy struck Texas. A flash flood cresting at more than 20 feet killed at least 70 people across six counties in central Texas, according to reports. Most of the damage was concentrated in Kerr County, a region about 125 miles west of Austin. There, the dead include 21 children and 11 who […]

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Elon Musk is Back in Politics With the New America Party

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After leaving DC, with his business empire suffering, his relationship with President Donald Trump fractured, and his DOGE efforts deemed broadly unpopular, Elon Musk is not quietly retreating to his Texas compound of pronatalists’ dreams. Instead, he announced on Saturday in a post on X that he will launch a new, third political party called […]

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Republican Lawmaker Dumped Medicaid-Related Stock Before Voting to Gut Program

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Elizabeth Warren said Robert Bresnahan protected his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million.

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“An Absolute Moral Failure”: Disability Advocates React to GOP Medicaid Cuts

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On Thursday, House Republicans voted to enact a spending bill that will strip close to one trillion dollars from federal Medicaid funding across a decade—an attack expected to cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year, disproportionately among the one in three disabled people on Medicaid in the US. The cuts will, among other […]

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Republican Governors Quiet Amid Plans to Slash Medicaid Spending in Their States

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They’re saying little publicly in the face of cuts that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets.

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Texas Forbids Law That Keeps Guns Away From Unhinged People

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Everything is bigger in Texas—except, apparently, memory of devastating mass shootings. In late June, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill known as the Anti-Red Flag Act, which preemptively bans the creation or enforcement of extreme risk protective orders. Such orders are legal tools used to temporarily prohibit a person from having access […]

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The Senate’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Will Create a Disaster for Rural Mothers and Babies

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The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which cleared the Senate Tuesday afternoon and is returning to the House, is generally terrible for families. But women and babies who live in areas that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump are likely to suffer some of its most sweeping and damaging effects. The historically brutal Medicaid cuts—a staggering $930 […]

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JD Vance Says Medicaid Cuts for Millions “Immaterial” Compared to Funding ICE

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Vance handwaved away the Medicaid cuts — expected to lead to thousands of deaths yearly — as “minutiae.”

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Senate Votes to Cut $930 Billion From Medicaid

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On Tuesday, Senate Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s intensely contested budget bill for the coming fiscal year, returning it to the House in a form that would slash $93 billion from annual federal Medicaid spending across the next decade, require states to implement Medicaid work requirements for adults (with limited exemptions), and strip health insurance […]

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After All-Night Session of Wrangling, GOP Still Lacks Votes to Pass Budget Bill

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With Democrats unanimously opposed to the bill, Senate Republicans can only afford to lose three GOP votes.

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