Tag: politics
All the articles with the tag "politics".
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Mehmet Oz found an insurer bailout and sent patients the bill
Mehmet Oz has finally found a private insurance subsidy he dislikes. His solution keeps the insurers and exposes people on Medicare to more of the cost.
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Trump is using the Justice Department to settle with himself
Donald Trump sued agencies he controls and extracted a deal from his own Justice Department. Now he is threatening to keep Todd Blanche as acting attorney general unless two Republican senators let…
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Congress is funding a war it refuses to authorize
The Senate could have forced Donald Trump to seek Congress's approval for his war in Iran on Thursday. By one vote, it chose to let him keep bombing.
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ICE turned a hunger strike into forced treatment
The Trump administration has found a way to turn political protest into a medical problem, then answer it with custody, restraints, tubes, catheters, and needles.
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Trump's disaster fund ransom note
The money was supposed to help states prepare for disasters, terrorism, cyberattacks, and emergencies. The Trump administration looked at it and saw a weapon.
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The Education Department is being hollowed out around disabled children
The Trump administration is trying to make a civil rights office disappear without admitting what disappears with it. On June 16, the Education Department announced four new "partnerships" that send…
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Congress handed ICE a blank check for three years
I keep coming back to one ugly fact: on June 10, Congress did not just fund immigration enforcement. It handed ICE and CBP a three year runway of nearly $70 billion and then pretended that was…
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New York should make data centers pay their way
New York just moved toward the country’s first statewide moratorium on new large data centers, and the anger behind it is not fake. On June 5, the state legislature passed the Responsible Data Center…
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Family values do not include charging disabled people for living at home
A government that claims to believe in family values should not punish disabled adults for living with family. But that is exactly what the Trump administration is preparing to do.
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The DOJ's anti-Christian bias report is a demand for Christian privilege
The Trump Justice Department released its "anti-Christian bias" report on Thursday, and the title alone tells you the scam. This is not a civil liberties audit. It is a federal argument that when the…