One critic said the party’s “top priority is making working- and middle-class families pay more for healthcare, lifesaving medications, food, cars, and electronics, all to fund more tax breaks for the ultrawealthy.” The national campaign Unrig Our Economy said Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s promise of tariffs targeting the automobile industry, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductor […]
“House Republican leadership put a giant bullseye on Medicaid, with the intent to strip Americans of their healthcare benefits to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations.” House Republicans unveiled a draft budget resolution on Wednesday that calls for $4.5 trillion in tax breaks that would disproportionately benefit the wealthy while proposing $2 trillion in cuts to […]
“They are laying the groundwork for denying benefits to anyone they want to punish or deem unworthy—or indeed, any one of us,” said the president of Social Security Works. U.S. President Donald Trump launched his latest threat against Social Security on Tuesday under the guise of combating fraud, floating the possibility of stripping benefits from “millions of […]
“This is what violent nationalism does,” said one observer. “It seeps into the minds of children and turns playgrounds into nightmares.” An 11-year-old Texas girl took her own life following relentless bullying from classmates, some of whom threatened to call U.S. immigration authorities to deport her mother—who says she was never notified by school officials […]
