Rare intervention from former president urges people to call their senators to oppose Trump tax bill
Barack Obama has warned that Congress is putting millions of Americans at risk of losing healthcare coverage, in a rare intervention from the former president as the Republican party advances legislation that would gut major provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
“Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care,” Obama posted on social media. “Call your Senators and tell them we can’t let that happen.”
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New York lieutenant governor launches primary challenge against Hochul
New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado will challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul in the governor's race next year, becoming the first prominent Democrat to launch a primary challenge against his current boss.
Delgado’s announcement on Monday doesn’t come as a major surprise, as he revealed in February that he didn’t plan to run for reelection as lieutenant governor next year but would explore “all options.”
Hochul appointed Delgado to serve as her second-in-command in 20...
Medicaid cuts will harm rural Republican communities most
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...
It’s not just Medicaid: Republicans’ megabill would sabotage the Affordable Care Act
Republicans have dropped the "repeal and replace" phrasing, but their megabill is an anti-ACA package that would take coverage from millions of Americans.
Schumer vows to fight GOP megabill ‘with everything we’ve got’
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is vowing in a letter to Democratic colleagues that the party will oppose the massive bill intended to implement President Trump’s agenda “with everything we’ve got.”
“This partisan monstrosity is nothing short of a billionaire handout paid for by American families and we will fight it with everything we’ve got,” Schumer wrote in a June 1 letter to Senate Democrats.
He called the bill, which Republicans are moving thro...
Trump 2.0 is the final victory of the John Birch Society
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;...
Trump 2.0 is the final victory of the John Birch Society
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;...
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ would sacrifice the least of us to the almighty dollar
For the last 236 years, the U.S. House of Representatives has begun each day of session with a prayer. The Senate does the same. Each body has a "nonsectarian, nonpartisan and nonpolitical" chaplain who "provides spiritual counseling and guidance" to its members.
The chaplains would do well to remind lawmakers of a truism: The moral test of any society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. President Trump has flooded the zone with failures in that regard. Congres...
6 Senate Republicans who could hold up Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’
Senate Republicans will take control of the party’s mammoth tax and domestic policy bill when they return to Washington on Monday — and seek to win over a diverse group of GOP lawmakers agitating for changes to the legislation.
Members are staring down a key four-week stretch to hammer out provisions of the bill, with their Fourth of July goal in sight and pressure mounting to complete President Trump’s top domestic agenda priority.
The bill narrowly passed ...