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.
Trump’s Beautiful Disaster
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 inEducation in America
Student Loan Borrowers Beware
President Trump’s overhaul of the federal student loan system is now underway. It seems to have inadvertently expedited a legal challenge to his alleged shadow repeal of a repayment plan established more than a decade ago.
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
Ten Bizarre Things Hidden in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
With the president asleep at the switch, all kinds of nutty provisions got snuck into the bill.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
Posted inPolitics
Holdouts But Not Opposers as Megabill Debate Drags On
The House Freedom Caucus keeps saying they don’t want to vote for this bill. They keep refusing to actually vote no.
Posted inPolitics
Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought
In a “wraparound” amendment, a new tax on solar and wind gets dropped.
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Trump Tax Cut Magic Wand Kicks Off Vote-a-Rama
After the Senate made $3.76 trillion in tax cuts go away, amendments will determine if there are enough votes to pass the Big Beautiful Bill.