Maternity wards face wave of closures as Medicaid cuts kick in

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ spending cuts will be fully felt next year, but hospitals are already feeling the squeeze

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/11/medicaid-cuts-maternity-wards

 

Trump SSI Rule Change Targets Disabled Adults Who Live With Families — ProPublica

Now, President Donald Trump’s administration is poised to penalize people like Burton simply for living in the same home as their families, according to four federal officials, internal emails and a federal regulatory listing. The administration is working on a rule change that would deduct the value of a disabled adult’s bedroom from their SSI allotment, even if the family members they live with are poor enough to qualify for food stamps. This would mean slashing the benefits of some of the most low-income SSI recipients by up to a third — about $330 a month in Burton’s case — or ending their support altogether...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-social-security-ssi-disability-benefits-cuts-parents-children

Brian Fitzpatrick delivers a warning on GOP reconciliation redo

Still, many of Fitzpatrick's colleagues are making plans for an expansive new GOP-only bill that would include more money for Homeland Security operations, Iran war funding and other cost-of-living priorities, while demanding it be fully offset with spending cuts — possibly from social programs targeted for "fraud prevention."

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/26/congress/fitzpatricks-reconciliation-warning-00846315

Trump's Big Beautiful Budget is a declaration of war on everyone in the U.S. but the very rich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC3iObkiD8U

'Your Job Is To Follow The Law': Patty Murray Grills EPA Head Zeldin On freezing appropriated funds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMtB4BJJ9Hc

 

Senate approves Republican plan for trillions in tax breaks and spending cuts

One crucial challenge ahead will be for the House to accept the way the Senate's budget plan allows for extending the tax cuts under a scoring method that treats them as not adding to future deficits, something many House Republicans reject. 

A new estimate from the joint committee on taxation projects the tax breaks will add $5.5tn in debt over the next decade when including interest, and $4.6tn not including interest. On top of that, the senators added an additional $1.5tn that would allow some of Trump's campaign promises, such as no taxes on tips, social security benefits and overtime, swelling the overall the price tag to $7tn...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/senate-republicans-trillions-tax-breaks-spending-cuts

 

Veterans cuts spark GOP backlash on Capitol Hill - POLITICO

"It's political malpractice not to consult Congress if that's what you intend to do," Graham said. "Maybe you've got a good reason to do it. I like Doug Collins — he's a great guy. But we don't need to be reading memos in the paper about 20 percent cut at the VA."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/veterans-cuts-backlash-republicans-doge-00216726

Trump's cuts to federal workers and VA programs alarm veterans

"It turns out that a sizable portion of the people fired were veterans. Now, the Republican Party must confront the fact that Trump's and Musk's actions will (not may) come back to haunt them in the midterm elections and beyond…"

https://thehill.com/opinion/5167018-trump-musk-va-cuts-veterans/ 

 

 

Republican House Speaker IN PANIC As His Own Party Abandons Him Over Medicaid cuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmbIbWB56Q

Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn

As administration cuts off resources from African countries to contain outbreak, workers say 'everybody's lost'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/trump-usaid-mpox

President Donald Trump's federal purge could cripple national parks - POLITICO

Since 2010, the National Park Service has seen staffing levels plummet even as visitation climbed. Further cuts could hamper the busy summer season, staffers and advocates warned...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/donald-trump-federal-purge-national-parks-00204670

House G.O.P. Pushes Deep Cuts to Federal Law Enforcement - The New York Times

Republicans put forward a spending bill that would slash funding for federal law enforcement, though they failed to find a way to defund the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/gop-spending-cuts-law-enforcement.html

McCarthy’s Plan to Avoid a Shutdown Hits Stiff G.O.P. Opposition - The New York Times

Republican leaders were hoping to pass the combination of spending cuts and border controls to show they were working to forestall a shutdown and pressure the Senate, but the bill's prospects looked grim...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/us/politics/mccarthy-shutdown-spending.html

Paul to force tough debt-ceiling vote to cut total spending

But, of course, making the rich pay their fair share not even an option.  So this is just another big distraction.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4029350-rand-paul-to-force-senate-vote-on-potential-cuts-to-medicare/

Debt-Ceiling Talks: McCarthy's Moderate Republican Allies Have Own Ideas - Bloomberg

Republican moderates are looking for bipartisan solutions to the debt-ceiling dilemma that would avoid the massive cuts to federal spending — including popular Social Security and Medicare programs — that some GOP members have demanded...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-25/mccarthy-s-moderate-gop-allies-float-their-own-debt-limit-ideas

Opinion | Whoops! The GOP accidentally admits tax cuts don’t pay for themselves. - The Washington Post

Under the new rules package, the budgetary requirements are more one-sided — in favor of tax cuts. Going forward, tax cuts do not need to be offset with any sort of savings elsewhere in the budget. They can add trillions to the debt. No problem. 

But this is not true of spending programs. Spending program increases still have to be paid for...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/12/gop-tax-cuts-rules-package/

ER doctor confronts Pence over Medicaid cuts in diner | TheHill

Dr. Rob Davidson posted a video to Twitter of his interaction with Pence, after he said the vice president happened to come into the diner in Des Moines, Iowa, to greet people. Davidson pointed to an announcement the Trump administration made earlier on Thursday, a controversial conservative move to allow states to cap their Medicaid funding with block grants. ....
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480944-er-doctor-confronts-pence-over-medicaid-cuts-in-diner

Democrats rally against Trump's cruel proposal to harm Social Security Disability beneficiaries

Donald Trump is systematically chipping away at every government social insurance program, from food stamps to Medicaid and Medicare to Social Security, to advance his cruel agenda. Among the swarm of regulation changes to all these programs is the creation of a new category of beneficiaries for Social Security Disability Insurance, one made up of people who will have to jump through multiple invasive hoops every two years in order to keep their modest benefits. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/1/29/1914896/-Democrats-rally-against-Trump-s-cruel-proposal-to-harm-Social-Security-Disability-beneficiaries

Guess what's in the GOP's 2018 budget? Spending cuts for America's most vulnerable

House Republicans unveiled their 2018 budget blueprint Tuesday which is intended to pave the way for their major rewrite of the tax code. But the only way for them to keep their tax overhaul dreams within reach for a simple party-line vote is by using the budget to slash the heck out of social safety net programs that help some of America's neediest populations....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1681721