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Trump-GOP budget bill would give top 1% over $1 trillion in...
New ITEP study shows a sweeping Republican measure delivers nearly seventy percent of its benefits to the wealthiest households while gutting Medicaid.
GOP budget standoff deepens as internal revolt stalls Trump’s $3.3 trillion...
Senate hold-outs cite draconian Medicaid and SNAP cuts while a new CBO score warns the measure will add $3.3 trillion to the debt even as Republican leaders race to meet Trump’s July 4 deadline.
Ominous history in real time: Where we are now in the...
This article is adapted from the new edition of Norman Solomon’s book “Made Love, Got War,” just published as a free e-book.
Without single GOP vote, Senate approves $3.5 trillion budget blueprint
"The president and the Democratic caucus are prepared to go forward in addressing the long-neglected needs of working families, and not just the 1% and wealthy campaign contributors."
Letting the Pentagon loose with your tax dollars
Creating a national insecurity state—spending more, seeing less.
Trump would cut TANF by $21 billion, impose harmful spending restrictions
This budget would halt states’ progress and encourage them to withdraw critical supports to families in poverty.
What the Trump budget says about the administration’s health priorities
With defense spending largely untouchable, health programs and other social support systems will likely bear the brunt.
Trump budget proposal reveals regressive environmental priorities
The White House’s 2021 federal budget proposal eliminates several important programs and slashes funding for others—like the Endangered Species Act.
House Democrats allocate $50 million to study gun violence
While funding for this type of study hasn't been allocated in more than two decades, gun violence prevention organizations and doctors' groups have sought this money to address gun violence.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.