Donald Trump

Trump shouldn’t import socialist price controls 

Donald Trump, healthcare, News, Opinion

Remember when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump castigated “Comrade Kamala” Harris, then the Democratic nominee, for supporting price controls? It wasn’t that long ago — just last August.  

At a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Trump told the crowd: “In her speech yesterday, Kamala went full Communist ... She wants to destroy our country. After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls.” 

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GOP leaders seek to quell debt revolt

Donald Trump, News, Russia
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Medicaid cuts will harm rural Republican communities most

Donald Trump, healthcare, News, Opinion

Though President Trump promised a “big beautiful” budget bill, what narrowly passed the House of Representatives in the early morning hours of May 22 will be anything but a big beautiful win for millions of marginalized Americans, and Medicaid beneficiaries won’t be the only ones who feel the pinch. 

In fact, if passed, this legislation would destabilize the publicly insured and privately insured alike, especially in America’s many rural communities.

Trump’s budget d...

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Trump 2.0 is the final victory of the John Birch Society

Donald Trump, News, Opinion

In 1958, a group of prominent business leaders founded the John Birch Society. Led by Robert Welch, inheritor of a vast candy fortune, these titans of wealth believed a vast communist conspiracy had penetrated the U.S. government. 

In “The Blue Book of the John Birch Society,” Welch presented an apocalyptic vision where politics was no longer a staid battle between the two political parties but a conflict “between light and darkness; between freedom and slavery;...

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Trump 2.0 is the final victory of the John Birch Society

Donald Trump, News, Opinion

In 1958, a group of prominent business leaders founded the John Birch Society. Led by Robert Welch, inheritor of a vast candy fortune, these titans of wealth believed a vast communist conspiracy had penetrated the U.S. government. 

In “The Blue Book of the John Birch Society,” Welch presented an apocalyptic vision where politics was no longer a staid battle between the two political parties but a conflict “between light and darkness; between freedom and slavery;...

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Budget bill faces Senate opposition over Medicaid 

Donald Trump, GOP, health care, medicaid, News, Senate
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House passes Trump agenda bill, hitting Medicaid, Affordable Care Act

Affordable Care Act, Donald Trump, health care, medicaid, News
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‘Pro-worker priorities’? Trump’s budget offers the exact opposite | Steven Greenhouse

Donald Trump, House of Representatives, News, Republicans, Trump administration, US Congress, US news, US politics

The ‘big, beautiful’ measure going through Congress would cut health, food and education benefits – and offer a huge boost to the richest

With Donald Trump pushing hard to give big tax cuts to the rich and do huge favors for crypto billionaires, it was jarring to see a photo of a Trump aide carrying a sign that said: “President Trump’s Pro-Worker Priorities”. The aide was about to place the sign on Trump’s lectern; it mentioned such “pro-worker priorities” as ending federal taxes on ...

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Trump to speak to Putin and Zelenskyy about Ukraine ceasefire – US politics live

Donald Trump, News, Russia, Trump administration, US news, US politics, World news

Unclear what US president can achieve after direct talks between Russia and Ukraine ended without conclusion

US advocacy groups are waging an intensive campaign to protect Medicaid and Obamacare from Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, after House Republicans proposed an $880bn cut that could leave an estimated 13 million Americans without health insurance.

The House bill left Republicans’ most controversial proposals on the table, but has divided Senate Repu...

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