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Trump Grants Clemency to Executive Who Orchestrated $205M Medicare Fraud Scheme
Republicans have claimed they’re “saving” Medicaid from “waste, fraud and abuse” with massive cuts.
Republicans Are Mocking Americans They Want to Take Medicaid Away From
Mike Johnson said that people raising alarm about Medicaid cuts are “complaining.”
GOP Senator’s Defense of Medicaid Cuts: “Well, We All Are Going to Die”
The GOP’s reconciliation bill includes cuts to anti-poverty programs that help save tens of thousands of lives yearly.
“Make America Healthy Again” Aims to Make Public Health Your Responsibility
The message coming from the Trump administration is: “Take care of yourselves — because we won’t.”
Illinois Bars Trump Admin From Using Residents’ Medical Data in Autism Registry
The governor issued an executive order after the NIH announced plans to use the proposed database to discover a “cure.”
As GOP Slashes Medicaid, Trump Boasts He’s “Not Cutting 10 Cents” From Pentagon
Trump also touted his push for an annual $1 trillion military budget during a West Point commencement address.
GOP Bill’s Militarized Funding Boost Could Instead Keep Millions on Medicaid
The reconciliation bill is a “redistribution of resources from struggling Americans to the Pentagon,” an expert said.
Trump Budget Is “a Mugging Conducted by the 1 Percent Against the Rest of Us”
Senate Republicans will now have to pass their own version of the budget.
The “Oligarch’s Budget” Wages War on Poor Americans
Unless you’re very wealthy, this bill will ultimately leave you worse off and more economically vulnerable.
Bishop William Barber: GOP Budget Is a Form of Social and Political Murder
“The reason I use the word ‘murder’ is because they know that it’s going to cause death,” Barber says.