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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Patricia Lopez
Looking for dinner. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Of all the cuts in the budget reconciliation bill working its way through Congress, few make less sense than those aimed at the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which has been feeding the nation’s poor for decades. Fully 42 million people rely on SNAP’s modest benefits to feed themselves and their children — 1 in every 8 Americans. Under the proposed cuts, 4 million would lose all or part of their benefits.
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2 weeks ago |
spokesman.com | Patricia Lopez
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst lobbed a verbal grenade into her town hall last Saturday with one heedless, heartless comment. Confronted by an audience member who shouted that without Medicaid, “people will die,” the Republican replied, “Well, we all are going to die. For heaven’s sake, folks.”That would once have been a career-ending gaffe for a senator seeking re-election, as Ernst will in 2026. But we’re in the MAGA era now.
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3 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Patricia Lopez
“Apologizing.”(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Iowa Senator Joni Ernst lobbed a verbal grenade into her town hall on Saturday with one heedless, heartless comment. Confronted by an audience member who shouted that without Medicaid, “people will die,” the Republican replied, “Well, we all are going to die. For heaven’s sake, folks.”That would once have been a career-ending gaffe for a Senator seeking re-election, as Ernst will in 2026. But we’re in the MAGA era now.
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3 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Patricia Lopez
Fulfilling a dream. (Bloomberg Opinion) -- This is a season of anxiety for international students in the US, who find themselves demonized by the Trump administration as it devises new ways to limit their numbers. The latest tactic came in a diplomatic cable from Secretary of State Marco Rubio to US embassies and consulates abroad, ordering a halt to the student visa interviews necessary to enter the country. The reason?
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4 weeks ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Patricia Lopez
Nearly five years to the week since George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer, a consent decree that was supposed to usher in significant law enforcement reforms in the city is no more, dissolved by court order at the Trump administration’s request. The Justice Department is also pulling out of a similar consent decree in Louisville, Kentucky that emerged following the police killing of Breonna Taylor in a botched 2020 raid.
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