The Center for American Progress and The Arc break down the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, exposing how its deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare will lead to benefit losses, increased paperwork requirements, and rural hospital closures that will hurt Americans—especially people with disabilities.
Congressional Republicans’ radical budget and tax bill includes several less-known provisions that will increase costs, fuel the Trump administration’s overreach, and waste taxpayer dollars.
In his first major policy speech as secretary of state — delivered Monday at the Heritage Foundation — Mike Pompeo set out the Trump administration’s Iran strategy.
The article analyzes shifts in GOP foreign policy and Trump’s impact on NATO. Trump’s transactional approach pushes Europe to boost defense spending, but risks weakening transatlantic unity. Success depends on turning pressure into stronger cooperation, not European strategic divergence from the U.S.
Conservative lawmakers and activists have demanded for months that the president and Congress legally cancel billions in federal spending the administration has already withheld—a sum Democrats peg at over $400 billion.
Trump’s “Gold Standard Science” executive order undermines scientific integrity by politicizing federal research, rolling back anti-interference protections, and enabling industry-friendly policies at the expense of public health and environmental studies.
Trump’s new “gold standard” executive order claims to improve scientific transparency but actually politicizes federal science, enabling political appointees to dismiss studies that contradict their agenda—mirroring tactics used by tobacco and fossil fuel industries.
Trump’s 2017 Opportunity Zones program diverted $89B to already-growing areas instead of truly distressed communities; Congress now has chance to refocus incentives on persistent poverty areas.
The U.S. faces a 3.9M-home shortage, worsened by proposed HUD subsidy cuts; federal-local partnerships are crucial for affordable housing development as local budgets allocate just 1.8% to housing.
Elon Musk’s brief tenure as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resulted in massive federal workforce cuts, weakened public institutions, and inflated claims of saving leaving agencies crippled and benefiting only wealthy elites.
The Supreme Court’s recent rulings threaten the independence of federal agencies like the NLRB and MSPB, while ambiguously sparing the Federal Reserve, raising concerns about political interference and legal consistency.
Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria and meet with its new president is a major shift in U.S.-Syria relations, but it may not be an indicator that Syrian refugees should return home any time soon.
