In today's issue:
▪ Trump on cusp of 'big, beautiful' win
▪ President touts Vietnam trade framework
▪ Wisconsin court upholds abortion access
▪ White House plays hardball on tariffs
President Trump is on the cusp of a major legislative win today as his “big, beautiful bill” heads to a final vote in the House.
Lawmakers teed up the bill to prepare to send it to Trump's...
Month: July 2025
GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states
In 2017, when President Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors rallied against it. Now, as Trump tries again to scale back Medicaid, they've gone quiet.
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Psaki: Republicans will regret passing Trump’s bill as Democrats look to reprise 2018’s House flip
Jen Psaki looks back at how Democrats made Republicans pay for their efforts to kill Obamacare by making that a central focus of House races that ultimately flipped the House to Democratic control. Donald Trump's budget bill is so wildly unpopular that Democratic candidates are already preparing to run against the bill and anyone who supported it. Republicans, in the meantime, are busy trying to distract Americans from what they're doing.
House nears finish line on health cuts
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Obama urges public to call on representatives to vote against Trump megabill
Former President Obama urged Americans to call their representatives Wednesday and tell them to vote against President Trump’s megabill as the House scrambles to push the massive spending package through.
“More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act,” Obama said in a post on social platform X.
“I...
Mayors sue over Trump administration rules restricting ObamaCare enrollment
A coalition of U.S. city mayors is suing the Trump administration over a recently finalized rule that limits enrollment in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans.
In June, the Trump administration finalized the “Marketplace Integrity and Affordability” rule, which shortens the open enrollment period for ACA plans to Nov. 1 through Dec. 15. Customers normally have until Jan. 15 to enroll. The rule also increases the maximum annual cost-sharing limitation and enacts stri...
Trump agenda bill stuck in House
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North Carolina governor urges state delegation to vote against megabill
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) is urging the state’s congressional delegation to vote against the massive Senate-passed domestic policy bill because of the serious consequences it would have for residents.
“I urge you to press pause on this bill because of the immediate and long-term threats it poses to the health and well-being of North Carolinians and the economic stability of our state,” Stein wrote in a letter dated Wednesday.
Stein expressed conce...
Medicaid cuts could save thousands of lives
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes,” goes the well-known saying often attributed to Mark Twain. There is no better demonstration of this wisdom than today's falsehoods about Medicaid cuts that are reported, repeated, reposted and retweeted, even as the truth gets but a few eyeballs.
NBC News recently predicted, “Proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to thousands of deaths.” Other mainstream media claimed similar ...
Jeffries presses GOP lawmakers to find ‘John McCain-level courage’
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday invoked the late-Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) dramatic and decisive vote to sink the Republicans’ 2017 effort to repeal ObamaCare during President Trump’s first term — as Jeffries argued against the GOP megabill.
"What type of party would bring a bill to the House floor that rips away Medicaid from those in need? What kind of party would bring a bill to the House floor that literally robs food from the mouths of ch...