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• Republican Medicaid Cuts Will Kill People

  16 de mayo, puesto en línea por Newswire Editor
  The following is a statement from Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, on the Republican plan to slash $715 billion from Medicaid: “Republicans are stealing health care from 13.7 million Americans to give trillions in tax handouts to billionaires. House Budget Committee (…)

• In Your Face: Gulag Barbie Toes the Loathsome Line

  
  16 de mayo, puesto en línea por Abby Zimet
  In a dystopian appearance before the House Homeland Security Committee, robotic sycophant and Cosplay Barbie Kristi Noem dodged, lied and gaslighted her way through questions from angry lawmakers about illegally disappearing migrants, defying court orders, arresting mayors, deporting children (…)

• Kennedy Seems to Double Down In His Agenda to Make America Sick Again

  14 de mayo, puesto en línea por Newswire Editor
  Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before the House Committee on Appropriations and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to testify on the White House’s 2026 budget request for his agency. The proposed HHS budget would effectively shutter (…)

• GOP House Ways and Means Committee Advances Bill to Give Billions Away to Billionaires, Paid for by Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP

  14 de mayo, puesto en línea por Newswire Editor
  Today, House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee voted to advance the tax portion of their reconciliation bill, which would grant massive tax breaks to billionaires and large corporations. This bill not only extends Trump’s original tax cuts but also increases tax benefits for the (…)

• Trump administration moves to weaken landmark PFAS protections in drinking water, putting millions at risk and letting polluters off the hook

  14 de mayo, puesto en línea por Newswire Editor
  In a shocking reversal of one of the most significant public health victories in a generation, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is moving to roll back vital portions of the nation’s historic limits on the toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS in drinking water These (…)