Under cover of delivering rightful benefits to veterans, a new Republican-backed bill in Congress takes them away.
Project 2025
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump Is Coming for Veterans’ Disability Benefits
The veterans disability system has traditionally been a sacred cow for politicians of all stripes. Now, as part of the conservative war on the Department of Veterans Affairs, the administration is falsely alleging that many former soldiers are cheating the system.
Posted inEducation in America
The Trump Administration Is Quietly Preparing to Bring Back School Segregation
It starts with vouchers and the destruction of the Office for Civil Rights.
Posted inPolitics
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding CAP’s ‘Project 2029’
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Meet RFK’s Corporate Underlings
The administration’s rhetoric about breaking corporate power in health care rings hollow, as several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interests their boss claims to oppose.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Russ Vought’s Scheme Has Been Unmasked
Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
In Trump’s D.C., the Swamp Runneth Over
This is by far the most corrupt administration in American history.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Republicans Break the Weather
The private sector can’t match the value proposition of the National Weather Service, but companies work to entice Americans to pay up anyway. What happens if they can’t?
Posted inEducation in America
Trump’s Plan to Dismantle Education Department Threatens Classroom Funding
Federal cuts would hurt students with disabilities, English learners and poor districts the most.
Posted inPolitics
Is Our Democrats Learning? UPDATE: No
Trump’s team said one too many times that Congress doesn’t matter. Will enough Senate Democrats try to make sure they do?
