by Eleanor J. Bader | Apr 22, 2026 | big beautiful bill, budget cuts, caregiving, Child Care, head start, Heritage Foundation, ICE, immigration, mass deportation, mass deportations, Medicaid, News, One Big Beautiful Bill, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Project 2025, Right Wing, Trump Administration
The Heritage Foundation, author of the Project 2025 roadmap guiding the second Trump administration’s legislative agenda, has a new policy platform chock-full of ideas that could steer mothers out of the paid workforce. In January, the right-wing organization released a 168-page report called “Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,” which suggests that U.S.
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by Sasha Abramsky | Apr 9, 2026 | big beautiful bill, Budget, Child Care, Donald Trump, Food Assistance, Food Assistance Programs, health care, Iran, iran war, LIHEAP, MAHA, Medicaid, Medicare, Military Spending, News, One Big Beautiful Bill, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Pentagon, Pentagon budget, Republicans, Safety Net, War, war in Iran, WIC
Last week, at a private Easter lunch, Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic saying that with the country at war, the federal government should offload Medicaid, Medicare, and child care expenditures onto the states. “We have 50 states. We have all these other people. We’re fighting wars,” the MAGA leader said. “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.”…
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by Amy Goodman | Dec 31, 2025 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Affordable Care Act (ACA), big beautiful bill, Donald Trump, health care, Health Insurance, Interview, Medicaid, Obamacare, One Big Beautiful Bill, One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Tens of millions of Americans are set to see their health insurance costs soar when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of this year. Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double or even triple for some 20 million people, pricing many out of healthcare coverage entirely. “We’ve done nothing as a country to control healthcare costs,” says Elisabeth Benjamin…
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by Sabena Chaudhry | Dec 31, 2025 | big beautiful bill, immigrant remittances, immigration, News, One Big Beautiful Bill, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, remittances, Taxes
The holiday season is here, a time when countless immigrants in the United States are sending a little extra money back home to their families. But now, many are bracing for a new financial hurdle: effective January 1, 2026, a federal 1% remittance tax will go into effect, adding a new cost to the cash, checks, and money orders that millions of immigrants rely on to support loved ones abroad.
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by Amy Goodman | Nov 26, 2025 | big beautiful bill, ICE, ICE Raids, immigration, Interview, Medicaid, North Carolina, One Big Beautiful Bill, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Protests
Protests have erupted in North Carolina after federal agents arrested 370 people in immigration raids. On Monday, Bishop William Barber and other religious leaders gathered in Charlotte to demand an end to ICE raids. “What you have is a conglomerate of policy violence, and it’s deadly,” says Barber, who is organizing protests against ICE and Medicaid cuts across the country. Barber notes that 51…
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