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Top Republicans threaten to block Trump’s spending bill if national debt is not reduced

Prominent US senators warn Trump to ‘get serious’ about addressing budget deficit or they will block ‘beautiful bill’

The Guardian - US

Fact-checking Trump’s claims about Medicaid cuts in GOP bill

House bill alters healthcare programme significantly despite Trump claiming cuts target only ‘waste, fraud and abuse’.

Al Jazeera

Food aid cuts and other changes: What the U.S. House spending bill could mean for Texans

Many low-income families would see cuts in health care and food benefits. The state hopes for a big reimbursement for border security spending.

The Texas Tribune

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Republican tax bill would actually decrease the poorest Americans' incomes

Many Americans who make less than $51,000 a year would see their after-tax income fall if the legislation is passed as is.

Fortune

GOP cuts make Trump touch the third rail

Republicans are raising the deficit so high that it may trigger sequestration and mandatory cuts to Medicare

Salon

‘This is going to help no one’: TikToker exposes why GOP’s ‘no tax on tips’ plan is helping exactly zero people who actually need it

Republicans want us to thank them despite not actually helping anybody.

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Republican cuts to food and health benefits ‘will kill’, advocacy groups warn

Provisions in Trump’s ‘beautiful bill’ include plans to cut billions of dollars in food and health benefits to the poor

The Guardian - US

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Republicans are dodging fired federal staff: ‘They will not even look in our direction’

Members of Congress are accused of hiding out when workers have sought answers on why their jobs were axed

The Guardian - US

Why Republicans are angry about Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’

President’s signature legislation moves to Senate after narrowly passing House but could face a raft of further objections on everything from tax cuts to Medicaid

The Independent UK

The decorative cookie tin that helps New Zealand make new laws

The quaintly patterned container might seem like a gag, but the ritual selection of bills from it is a serious affair

The Independent UK

How a cookie tin lottery at New Zealand's Parliament helps decide what becomes law

In New Zealand’s Parliament, every legislator has the chance to advance a proposed law, no matter how unpopular, thanks to an unusual lottery where bills are selected by random draw from a cookie tin

The Independent UK

Campaigners urge judge to block new restrictions to getting measures on Florida’s ballot

Attorneys for groups trying to ballot measures before Florida voters next year say their First Amendment rights are being infringed on every day that a new state law remains on the books

The Independent UK

‘They don’t serve the people’: Jasmine Crockett exposes the ugly reality of Republicans’ ‘beautiful’ bill — and she’s not holding back

If this is what “winning” looks like, we’re all in serious trouble.

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Work requirements could transform Medicaid and food aid under US budget bill

Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, hospitals checking citizenship status, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House would rearrange the U.S. social safety net

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - US

‘Pro-worker priorities’? Trump’s budget bill offers the exact opposite

The ‘big, beautiful’ measure going through Congress would cut health, food and education benefits – and offer a huge boost to the richest

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‘Morning in America’: Mike Johnson celebrates passing Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ after all-night House marathon

"PASSED: ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL ACT."

The Independent UK

Trump’s ‘One, big, beautiful bill’ would ban care for transgender people on Medicaid and Obamacare

‘It's one more example of health care that they're trying to rip away,’ Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, tells The Independent

The Conversation

Work requirements are better at blocking benefits for low-income people than they are at helping those folks find jobs

Republican lawmakers have been battling over a bill that includes massive tax and spending cuts. Much of their disagreement has been over provisions intended to reduce the cost of Medicaid.

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‘We’re talking about nearly 14M people’: Hakeem Jeffries exposes twisted logic behind GOP’s new Medicaid gutting scheme

Hakeem Jeffries tells it like it is.

The Independent UK

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ one step closer after tense vote

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Salon

Trump’s border war won’t stop overdoses

If we want to stop deaths from fentanyl, we must stop the attacks on public health

Roll Call

Sweeping budget package passes House after weeks of arm-twisting - Roll Call

House Republicans passed their "big, beautiful" reconciliation bill early Thursday morning, sending to the Senate a filibuster-proof package.

The Independent UK

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ passes the House of Representatives after contentious fight in dead of night

After one-vote win, the bill now heads to the Senate, where it will inevitably face major changes

The Independent UK

Top 10 wealthiest American men collectively earned extra $1B a day, report says, as Trump pushes tax cuts

Despite market turmoil caused by Donald Trump’s tariffs, the group saw an increase in their collective wealth of $365 billion over the last 12 months

The Independent UK

To save Trump’s ‘one big, beautiful bill,’ Republicans disregard the math

ANALYSIS: Analysis: The leadership doesn’t like the debt-exploding numbers of Donald Trump’s proposal exposed by the Congressional Budget Office, Eric Garcia writes

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