Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Tag: tax cuts for the rich

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering...

New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.

Right-wing groups mobilize against effort to crack down on tax dodging...

“You can’t raise taxes, you can’t raise taxes that have just been lowered, and you can’t enforce existing tax laws—a never-ending race to the revenue bottom,” said one critic of the right-wing campaign.

Amid recession warnings, Trump reportedly considering more tax cuts for rich...

While continuing to publicly downplay warning signs that the U.S. economy is barreling toward a recession, the Trump White House is reportedly weighing a...

Six reasons why American corporations shouldn’t get a tax cut

A corporate tax cut is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.

How many people will die for each rich American’s Trumpcare tax...

Trump and the other Republicans who support this bill share something in common: their personal tastes may be expensive but, for them, the lives of most Americans are insignificant and cheap.

Tax cuts defund the very things that boost the economy

There is no evidence that tax cuts bring economic growth, but they do cause income to concentrate at the top.

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Forty-five groups urge House vote on Cuba war powers resolution

The coalition cites a 148 percent rise in Cuba's infant mortality rate since 2018 and a Senate companion measure that failed by four votes in April.
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Energy Transfer seeks to overturn Pennsylvania clean water law after jet fuel spill

The 89-year-old law's mens rea challenge could also unravel other state statutes, from traffic offenses to hunting rules, if the company's argument succeeds.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests.
FEMA community relations workers at a disaster recovery center. Photo: George Armstrong, public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Federal judge rules Trump plan to halve FEMA workforce unlawful

The ruling covers the reservists who deploy after hurricanes and floods, with a decision on remedies due next month as hurricane season continues.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds

Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.