Posts by Kim Browne
Republicans Sneak Massive Medicare Cuts Into Their Horrid Tax Bill
House Democrats immediately pounced. At a House Rules Committee meeting early Wednesday morning, ranking member Jim McGovern asked Representative Brendan Boyle, the ranking member on the House Budget Committee, whether the bill would trigger cuts to Medicare. “Look, this is really the breaking news, because when the Budget Committee kicked off this process approximately three…
Read MoreRepublican Torched for Falling Asleep Amid Debate on Medicaid Cuts
Republicans want to add work requirements to Medicaid, but having to work themselves is apparently a problem. Representative Ralph Norman was caught falling asleep in his chair late Tuesday as the House Rules Committee discussed the future of a Republican-led reconciliation bill that aims to strip Medicaid coverage from millions of Americans. .@RepRalphNorman is ripping…
Read MoreHow Republicans Plan to Steal From the Poor to Give to the Rich
The Congressional Budget Office has reported that Trump’s “big, beautiful” spending bill will continue the longtime Republican tradition of giving tax cuts to the wealthy while spiting the poor. A CBO estimate Tuesday found that the GOP bill would decrease household resources for the poorest 10 percent in America, with households expected to lose 2…
Read MoreDOGE Is Targeting Even More Agencies Than We Knew
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has attempted to expand its influence beyond agencies within the executive branch to distant corners of the federal government, and then some. NPR reported Tuesday that it had identified nearly 40 organizations that DOGE had attempted to access—some of which were outside of the bounds of the federal government.…
Read MoreTop Democrat Reveals the Sick Math of Republicans’ Budget Bill
Republicans are forcing through the president’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill despite opposition from within their party, and despite opposition from the American public. While debating the details of the Medicaid-slashing tax cuts late Tuesday, Democratic Representative Jim McGovern pointed out that the lawmakers in the room were not elected to strip away public services from…
Read MoreEric Trump Breaks Ground on $1.5 Billion Resort in Tariffed Country
“Democrats pretended to care about campaign finance violations when they persecuted President Trump with their lawfare,” Mike Davis, a conservative lawyer close to Trump who is a key player of the MAGA legal elite, told Rolling Stone. “Maybe they shouldn’t have thrown stones in glass houses. Nobody is above the law.” Trump and Springsteen have…
Read MoreTrump’s Deportations to South Sudan Are More Twisted Than They Seem
“Democrats pretended to care about campaign finance violations when they persecuted President Trump with their lawfare,” Mike Davis, a conservative lawyer close to Trump who is a key player of the MAGA legal elite, told Rolling Stone. “Maybe they shouldn’t have thrown stones in glass houses. Nobody is above the law.” Trump and Springsteen have…
Read MoreLeaked Emails Show Top Gabbard Aide Ordering Secret Intel Rewrite
Earlier this month, the Trump administration’s own intelligence agencies found that Venezuela does not control the Tren de Aragua gang, directly contradicting Trump’s justification for invoking the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants. But instead of admitting their mistake, they decided to lie. “We need to do some rewriting … so this…
Read MoreMicrosoft-backed Builder.ai set for bankruptcy after cash seized
[LONDON] Builder.ai, the British artificial intelligence startup backed by Microsoft and the Qatar Investment Authority, is filing for bankruptcy after the chief executive officer said a major creditor had seized most of its cash. Viola Credit, which provided US$50 million in debt to the software firm last year, has seized US$37 million from Builder.ai’s accounts,…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump’s Fury at Bruce Springsteen Takes a “Chilling” Turn
Now, that theory, if you can even call it that, is stupid. We don’t have time on this episode to describe exactly how stupid it is, but I think your listeners can figure it out—given that just saying it, I think we all got a little bit dumber on this podcast. But this is something…
Read MoreThe Surprising Reason Nevada Hasn’t Repealed a 1911 Abortion Ban
This posture did not change, even after Donald Trump won the election. “They had ample opportunity to decide to create protections for people and change some of the old laws, and they just decided they weren’t going to,” said the source, who, like other people in this story, didn’t want to use their name for…
Read MoreWas It Really a “Cover-Up” If We All Knew the Truth About Biden?
Tapper and Thompson make it clear that several key people in Biden’s orbit understood that his health was declining and chose to do nothing. Others, including Biden and his family—and likely many others working closely with him—appeared to be in deep denial of what was obviously true: He was unwell. We now know that Biden…
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