Josh Cohen wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Josh is a freelance writer in Seattle. He’s written for The Nation, Pacific Standard, Vice, and Next City. Follow him on Twitter @jcohenwrites.
The legislation extends Trump-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, adds new corporate giveaways, and revives controversial provisions targeting civil society, while gutting Medicaid and SNAP.
New plans from Erik Prince, a persistent figure in America’s private military complex, signal a wider push to privatize government functions in Trump’s second term.
The agency said updates will no longer be made to its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), and that this information—which stretches back 45 years—would be archived.