Thursday, September 4, 2025

Tag: Ron Wyden

McConnell dismisses voter concerns as Senate GOP advances sweeping Medicaid cuts

Republican leaders push forward a plan that would slash coverage for millions, despite warnings of political backlash, mass protests, and deadly consequences.

Millions would lose Medicaid under GOP cuts, says new CBO report

A nonpartisan analysis shows Republican efforts to slash Medicaid by $880 billion would strip healthcare from millions of low-income Americans in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

Trump’s tariff chaos triggers global backlash, economic turmoil, and growing revolt...

Critics say president’s abrupt reversal on sweeping tariffs shows lack of coherent strategy and deepens damage to workers, consumers, and U.S. global standing.

Wyden pushes for major Supreme Court overhaul, seeks to restore public...

Senator Ron Wyden introduces sweeping legislation to expand the number of justices, implement transparency measures, and limit political influence on the nation’s highest court.

WATCH: Bernie Sanders destroys GOP tax plan: “This bill must not...

"This is the ultimate betrayal of the middle class."

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How the UN can act decisively to end genocide in Gaza

Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly can take decisive action to end the genocide in Gaza, by authorizing a UN-backed arms embargo, economic boycott and divestment campaign against Israel, or even a military protection force for Gaza.

Appeals court rejects Trump’s wartime deportation claim under Alien Enemies Act

Fifth Circuit finds no “invasion” or “predatory incursion,” blocks Alien Enemies Act removals from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi while due process issues return to lower court.

Scores of climate experts condemn Trump climate report as ‘junk science’

“It reads like a list of common climate skeptic tropes—long ago rebutted by the scientific community—being rehashed by a group of disgruntled scientists.” 

AI death panels or cost control? Medicare pilot hands denials to private algorithms

Federal pilot in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington will pay private A.I. firms a cut of “savings,” prompting warnings of “AI death panels” and the “very worst of private insurance.”

Trump says America’s oil industry is cleaner than other countries’. New data shows massive...

Does Texas, the heart of America’s oil and gas industry, tell a different story?