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In Trump's eagerness to score a win and extend tax cuts, he walked away from a key campaign promise on Medicaid. The GOP fears that will cost the party.
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After a tumultuous day, an overnight cliffhanger of a vote and a record-breaking speech, Republicans finally managed to wear down internal resistance and muscle their domestic policy bill through the House.
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As we broadcast, the House was soon set to vote on the so-called big, beautiful bill before the July 4 deadline imposed by President Trump. Should the House pass the legislation, the bill would be sent to Trump's desk to be signed into law. The bill massively increases funding for ICE, cuts $1 trillion from Medicaid over a decade and adds $3.3 trillion to the nation's debt.
"It makes people in the country who are in the bottom 30%, working hard to pay their bills, poorer, because it's stripping away healthcare from them, stripping away food assistance from them. And it is all in the name of giving tax breaks to the wealthiest. … The top 20% in this country get 60% of the benefits," says Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna.
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Many Republicans had harshly criticized President Trump's marquee bill extending tax cuts and slashing social safety net programs — almost right up until the moment they voted for it.
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The legislation has big implications for seniors, families, Medicaid recipients, immigrants and others.
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Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, delayed a final House vote with an impassioned speech that lasted nearly nine hours.
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The chancellor says she had been dealing with a "personal issue" but was still "cracking on with the job".
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Seven writers on the best and worst provisions in Trump's bill.
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See how every lawmaker voted.
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The court's order followed a broader one last month allowing removals to countries with which migrants have no connections.
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The ruling cited a Supreme Court decision in May that allowed President Trump to sideline Democratic appointees from several other nonpartisan agencies.
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The wide-ranging domestic policy legislation could impact taxes, clean energy choices, health care access and more.
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The cases involve laws in Idaho and West Virginia that bar transgender athletes from participating in women's and girls' school sports.
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Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm elections.
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The nation's largest abortion provider must stop offering it in some states or risk losing millions in Medicaid funding to provide basic health care for low-income Americans.
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To secure a key vote, an "absurd policy" was created that winds up encouraging states to make more mistakes.
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Whatever the cause, Labour must soon start projecting direction, confidence and grip.
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Deep in the Florida Everglades, at an abandoned airfield surrounded by barren swampland, local law enforcement authorities are opening the doors to a huge tent facility that hopes to lock up immigrants swept up in the Trump administration's mass deportation machine. Republicans have branded the still-unapproved facility "Alligator Alcatraz," with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier boasting that the state can afford to keep staff and safety costs low because the wild animals of the swamp will provide security and prevent escapes. Immigrant rights advocates warn that the cramped facility will further isolate immigrants who are being rounded up indiscriminately and detained without charge, and could lead to life-threatening overheating and overcrowding. We speak to Nery Lopez of Detention Watch Network and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council for more about the "inhumane" proposed detention camp.
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The BBC's political editor Chris Mason and chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman on the welfare bill.
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Hundreds of flights to Washington were canceled because of severe weather, forcing some members of the House to set off on hourslong drives to the Capitol.
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"There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes," Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel's war on Gaza. Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman spoke with the top U.N. rights watchdog in Geneva this week at the headquarters of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Türk, who has characterized Israel's actions in Gaza as ethnic cleansing, discusses the ongoing suffering of the civilian population, how Israel has attacked the U.N. and its workers, and why he continues to hope "for both Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace."
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Las organizaciones de defensa dijeron que esta medida crea una nueva forma de detención fuera del alcance del gobierno federal.
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Immigrant advocates said the move creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government.
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