Here are the dates that things will change, and what the changes means for Americans. Below is a guide that describes what changes you may encounter and examples of what these changes will look like to you and your loved ones.
Readers Comments: GOP Budget ‘Total Betrayal’ of Working Class; Immigration and Health in Rural America; Story behind removal of Univ of Virginia president - eliminate DEI as fight against anti-Semitism; David Schwartzman-RIP; Announcements; more...
Accusations that James Gunn has “politicized” Superman come laughably late, as the world's most famous superhero has always been political, write narrative strategist Andrew Slack and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.
The Republican budget will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, and shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthy. It is a staggering upward redistribution of income.
For the first time, required pre-authorizations are coming to traditional Medicare. The Trump administration proposes to extend pre-authorizations to traditional Medicare, just like Medicare Advantage. This maneuver has gotten little attention.
Readers Comments: Bill of Death in House; Big Beautiful BS; Trump and Uber-Rich Usurp Country's Independence and Constitution; Mamdani and Lander Combined Two Strands; NYC Labor Unites Behind Mamdani; Resource: How Bad Is It?; Announcements; Cartoons
Switching gears
Readers Comments: Zohran Mamdani Wins!; Before Zohran, There Was Comrade La Guardia; Trump Shames America, Nuclear Options, Negotiation, Netanyahu; Path to Pushing MAGA out of Power; World Council of Churches: Call to End Apartheid, Occupation; more;
Only a new governing coalition capable of expanding political democracy and beginning a process of structural change can push MAGA back to the margins. Lessons from the 2020 election and the Biden years help show a path toward that goal.
The Senate’s version will blow up the deficit just as much as the House’s—and its Medicaid cuts are deeper. The Senate’s cuts to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, are bigger than the House bill—probably in excess of $900 billion
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