May 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM EDT
House GOP sneakily proposes kicking 13.7 million people off Medicaid

While no one was watching Sunday night, House Republicans released their official plan to only partly pay for President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," which will cut taxes for the rich and finance his evil deportations. As expected, the legislation will cut health care for millions of Americans. The House Energy and Commerce Committee's legislation would cut $912 billion over the next decade, with $715 billion coming from Medicaid, the popular program that provides health insurance to more than 71 million Americans annually.

 

May 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM EDT
Your tax dollars are being wasted on Trump's bogus deportation flights

The American taxpayers have paid out at least $21 million to transport migrants to the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, between Jan. 20 (Donald Trump's first day in office) and April 8. The information on the project, initiated by Trump, was released to Congress by U.S. Transportation Command, known asTRANSCOM. Currently there are 32 migrants being held at the facility, notorious as a detention site for suspected members of the al-Qaida terrorist network and the Taliban extremists of Afghanistan. The facility has held under 500 prisoners in total and never more than a maximum of 200.

 

May 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM EDT
Cartoon: Blame Biden

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Trump caves on his Chinese tariffs, but it's too little too late

 

May 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM EDT
Check out John Oliver's epic takedown of this right-wing hate group

On April 30, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond , a case that addresses whether Oklahoma is required to provide public funding to the Catholic Church for operating a religious charter school. While the case is expected to be decided next month, John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" focused less on the case itself and more on the dodgy organization behind it: the Alliance Defending Freedom. Known as the ADF, it has been certified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group""and for good reason.

 

May 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT
Trump is very proud of himself for selling access to the White House

President Donald Trump is openly using the White House to accept personal bribes, providing access and influence over his presidency. Two recent developments show Trump using his public office to take in millions for his own benefit. The Trump family is offering a private dinner at the White House""which is owned by the American taxpayers""to the winner of an auction for their $TRUMP cryptocurrency. The auction, which will end on Monday, has attracted millions of dollars in bids from people hoping that handing off their money to Trump will give them access to his presidency.

 

May 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM EDT
How red states are the biggest victims of Trump's cuts

When 77 million Americans cast their ballots for Donald Trump for president last year, many of them were voting for exactly the kind of disruptive, government-gutting change Trump has delivered. They probably never imagined that the price of Trump's cost-cutting would soon hit their own communities, often with devastating economic and public health effects. Trump's decision to end billions of dollars in federal grants to a wide variety of state and local nonprofits has crippled the delivery of critical public services in small towns across the country. Some of the hardest hit communities are located in red states like West Virginia, Alabama, North Carolina, and Louisiana, where voters backed Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Now some of Trump's most fervent supporters are left wondering whether anything will be left of their communities in four years.

 

May 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT
How Trump's tariffs could affect Nike and its factory workers

The sportswear company offers a case study in the ripple effects of the global trade war, including how workers can get squeezed. By Matthew Kish, The Oregonian/OregonLive for ProPublica In May 2015, President Barack Obama gave a big speech about dropping trade barriers with other nations. He delivered it on a sunny day at Nike's world headquarters in Oregon.

 

May 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM EDT
Cartoon: Victory posters!

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May 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT
Sorry, Trump, the economy is yours. Plus, was America ever great?

Survey Says is a weekly column rounding up three of the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about. You'll also find data-based updates on past Daily Kos reporting, plus a vibe check on a trend that's driving politics.

Whose economy is it anyway?

With President Donald Trump's second term past the 100-day mark, he's scrambling to dodge blame for a stock market that's fallen since he took office. On April 30, he declared in a social media post, "This is Biden's Stock Market, not Trump's."