Senate Republicans passed a budget package with the deepest cuts to health care in decades on Tuesday.
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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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After All-Night Session of Wrangling, GOP Still Lacks Votes to Pass Budget Bill Read Post »
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democratic lawmakers led by the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren are pressing two energy companies about their efforts to “win a $1.1 billion tax loophole” in Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. The proposed exemption, which Senate Republicans inserted into their version of […]
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The new attack on the CFPB comes after an earlier proposal to eliminate its entire budget violated reconciliation rules.
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The Senate Finance Committee text goes even further than the House version in its attacks on the program.
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Senate GOP Budget Draft Proposes Even Bigger Cuts to Medicaid Funding Read Post »
A KFF Health Tracking Poll shows anxiety is high about looming Medicaid cuts among voters across the political spectrum.
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Poll Shows GOP Senators Who Vote to Cut Medicaid Could Face Political Peril Read Post »
In early April, Tracy Baton helped organize a “Hands Off!” rally protesting President Donald Trump in downtown Pittsburgh that was attended by more than 6,000 people. But she wasn’t just angry at the president—she was also incensed by her state’s Democratic senator, John Fetterman. So was the crowd. “Fetterman?” one speaker yelled from a stage […]
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How John Fetterman Became “Trump’s Favorite Democrat” Read Post »
Schumer said the slowdown of the nomination process would remain in place “until we get more answers” on the gift.
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Responding to Qatari Jet Gift, Schumer Places Hold on Trump DOJ Nominees Read Post »
Ed Martin, the far-right-activist-turned-acting US attorney for DC, apologized this week for praising an alleged Nazi sympathizer at an event last year. But Martin’s ties to Timothy Hale-Cusanelli—who is known for wearing a Hitler-style mustache, and who allegedly once told a coworker that the Nazis “should have finished the job”—are far more extensive than just that […]
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Ed Martin Isn’t Coming Clean About His Ties to an Alleged Nazi Sympathizer Read Post »
This story was originally published by Public Domain, a Substack publication to which you can subscribe here. When rancher Ammon Bundy and his armed posse stormed into Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January 2016 in a failed attempt to seize public land for themselves, Kathleen Sgamma, then the vice president of the Western Energy Alliance, issued a brief […]
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“Let’s be clear: Trump and his allies in Congress are cooking the books in broad daylight,” said one critic.
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