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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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Voters Will “Get Over It,” McConnell Tells GOP Colleagues About Medicaid Cuts

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Polling consistently shows that voters strongly object to the Medicaid cuts proposed in the GOP reconciliation package.

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Conservatives Are Already Losing Their Minds Over Mamdani’s Apparent Win

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It didn’t take long for conservatives to lose their minds after Zohran Mamdani’s apparent upset over Andrew Cuomo in the Tuesday night Democratic primary in the New York City mayoral race. Why? He’s a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist who has promised free buses, free child care, and to freeze the rent. But the fact that seems […]

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Democrats in Congress Decry Trump’s Iran Strikes as Unconstitutional

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On Saturday night, President Donald Trump announced to the world that the US carried out what he called “massive precision strikes” on three nuclear facilities in Iran. The announcement put an end to over a week of speculation about whether Trump would join Israel’s offensive; just Wednesday, Trump told reporters, “Nobody knows what I’m going […]

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