Advocates are hosting a series of conferences about deadly GOP health care spending cuts; Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee found five contracting goliaths are set to reap outsized benefits.
Big Beautiful Bill
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
What a Health Care Crisis Looks Like on the Ground
In South Los Angeles, ER patients are cared for in a gift shop, in tents, and even outdoors. And that’s before the crushing Medicaid cuts.
Posted inTechnology
Big Tech Crashes Headlong Into American Democracy
The AI oligarchs thought they could stuff data centers down the throats of the American people. They thought wrong.
Posted inPolitics
MI-07: Tom Barrett Scrambles to Bury His Data Center Past
The Republican incumbent voted for massive tax breaks for data centers in the Big Beautiful Bill. Now he’s saying Washington shouldn’t decide on the facilities.
Posted inTAP
The Companies That Got $83 Billion in Tax Breaks Last Year
All of them are tied to the data center build-out. Their tax breaks represent nearly half of the total all companies received in 2025.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump to HIV and Cancer Patients: Get Back to Work
A surprise rule added to the Big Beautiful Bill could disrupt access to Medicaid for people with serious illnesses who thought they were exempted from work requirements.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Big Beautiful Bill’s Market-Based Health Care Delusion
The Rural Health Transformation Program asks states to build market-style reforms in places where health care markets often do not exist.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Trump Accounts Close the Racial Wealth Gap, or Worsen It?
The investment accounts for newborns have been lauded as an innovative wealth-building program. But they might exacerbate economic inequalities instead of remedying them.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump Funding Cuts Endangering City and Rural Hospitals Alike
A year after Trump ripped $1 trillion out of the American health care system, hundreds of hospitals have closed and millions of people are without health insurance. The majority are in urban areas.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Are Triple-Dipping Funding for Mass Deportation
ICE and CBP have gotten nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars under Trump in the last year. The GOP is still trying to add more.