To help pay for his war of choice with Iran, Trump wants to zero out funding for energy assistance and efficiency programs. But it’s not the first time he’s tried to dismantle them.
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GOP Food Stamp Work Requirements Hit Just as Jobs Dry Up
Millions of people will lose food stamps, according to early estimates.
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Trump’s Wreckage of Social Security and Medicare
The assault on cherished social insurance programs is a gift to Democrats, but only if they are clear about how to defend them.
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GOP War on Health Care Destroying Hospitals at Home and Abroad
More than 800 health care facilities are at risk or have already closed since Republicans severely cut funding last year. The worst is still ahead.
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Trump’s Death Panel
The proposed cuts in several forms of health care spending are a real version of the fake ‘death panels’ that the right attributed to Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
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You Gotta Hand It to Chuck Schumer This Time
He went up against Republicans and … won?
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Senate Approves TSA Funding, Now the Fun Begins
The measure financing most of the Department of Homeland Security has nothing constraining the actions of ICE. But to get ICE more funding, Republicans have a tall task.
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Here’s the Proposed Deal to Fund Most of DHS
Everything would be funded except ICE enforcement, and some reforms added, while Republicans would try a long-shot reconciliation bill for ICE money afterward.
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The Quietest Government Shutdown
It’s been almost imperceptible, but the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t been funded since February. Avenues to resolve the standoff keep getting cut off.
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The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded
Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.