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Unfortunately, the decades long Republican party effort to strip millions of Americans from a basic right to health insurance seems about to come to fruition. Republican Senate Leader John Thune of South Dakota set this week for the United States Senate to begin passage of its version of the Big Beautiful (awful) Bill, with their…
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National attention on “The Big Beautiful Bill” passed by the House of Representatives on May 22, 2025 focused on tax cuts for the rich, Medicaid cuts driving millions of Americans off their health insurance, and bigger deficits. There is still a long way to go before the bill passes the Senate and is then jointly…
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The Republicans who control the House and Senate have begun their process to pass a giant Budget Reconciliation package of tax and spending cuts for Fiscal Year 2024-2025. And oh, what an insane package it is. The destructive potential of the Republican’s agenda is astonishing, both in the harm to ordinary people from cuts to…
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With nearly half the state’s population dependent on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act for their health coverage, and Federal funds providing 60% of the dollars, millions of New York residents are deeply vulnerable to the schemes now working their way through Congress to cut the Medicaid program. After reviewing New York’s program and the…
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After several weeks of the Trump-Musk onslaught against the American government, the House and Senate Republicans are stepping up to the plate with their Budget Resolution blueprints to forge reconciliation legislation for multiyear tax and spending plans. While court decisions and other public pressure might bottle up some Trump-Musk damaging actions, the Republican Congress could…
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In the course of a few days, Donald Trump has begun laying the groundwork to deport millions of unauthorized/undocumented immigrants and seal the border. His executive orders include ending birthright citizenship for persons born to undocumented immigrants in the United States, declaring a national emergency to use the military to block entry into the United…
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During the Trump second term, Americans can expect another onslaught of lies, far more than any fact checker could handle. On some basics about the economy, like jobs, inflation, food prices, gas prices, and oil production, having a reference guide for the past twelve years could come in handy. And so, here it is: Jobs…
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My wife and I left for a river cruise in France the afternoon after the Presidential election; we already had the bad news that Americans had voted a corrupt criminal as their President and were grumpy about being forced to listen to Trump voters who were passengers on the boat. But most of the cruisegoers…
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I offer a poignant moment and a good poll. The moment is President Biden voting early in Delaware, standing online and helping an elderly lady in a wheelchair in front of him. The Polls The second is the reputable Cooperative Election Study summary of pre-election interviews which produced a 48,000 likely voter model showing Kamala…
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Vice President Kamala Harris succeeded in baiting the former President during the debate, provoking the cuckoo to pop out of his head frequently, including his preposterous pronouncement that, “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people who came in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people who live there.” Sixty-seven million…
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