Lynsi Burton
Lynsi Burton wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Lynsi is a crime and breaking news reporter for seattlepi.com and is from Seattle. She was a YES! editorial intern in 2009 and also contributes to Seattle Business Magazine.
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Trump-GOP tax bill delivers $5 trillion to billionaires while slashing aid for working families
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.
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The America we once knew...gone!
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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.
NOAA will stop tracking costs of climate crisis-fueled disasters in wake of Trump cuts
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.
GOP Medicaid cuts would drop millions from coverage while boosting tax breaks for the...
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