CCF Marks 20th Anniversary as Ominous Cuts to Medicaid Loom

The Center for Children and Families turned 20 on Monday! I marked this milestone as a guest on the NPR 1A program, explaining the role of Medicaid and Congressional proposals to cut it deeply. Man…

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Author: Joan Alker

How Trump Is Scrambling the G.O.P. Push to Cut Medicaid Spending

The president’s stated opposition to cutting the program has put Republicans laboring to enact his domestic agenda in a bind.

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Author: Catie Edmondson

Trump fires all 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission

The Consumer Product Safety Commission works to protect Americans from dangerous products and issuing recalls and warnings. It’s the latest attempt by Trump to exact control over independent agencies.

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Author: Jaclyn Diaz

Trump Fires Consumer Watchdog Who Defied Executive Order

President Donald Trump has fired Richard Trumka Jr. from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a week after the Democratic commissioner voted to defy an executive order that asserted the White House’s power over independent regulatory agencies.

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Author: Gregory Korte,Ari Natter

Trump fires three Democrats on Consumer Product Safety Commission

President Trump fired the three Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), a White House official told The Hill, aligning with his view that the president has authority over indepe…

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Author: Alex Gangitano

The Democrats’ Great Debates

Today on TAP: How to contain Trump and defend democracy? What to stand for affirmatively as an opposition party?

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Author: Robert Kuttner

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Signals He’s Open to Slashing China Tariffs

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Author: nytimes

David and Victoria Beckham feud with Nicola Peltz explodes after ‘deeply unpleasant’ claims

David and Victoria Beckham’s pals have hit back after Nicola Peltz’s friends accused the Beckhams of ’emotional abuse and toxic behaviour’ in an extraordinary outburst

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Author: Tom Bryant

Justin Bieber admits ‘I’ve hurt others’ as he breaks silence on alarming posts

Justin Bieber has spoken out following weeks of concerning social media posts and revealed that he admits he’s hurt those closest to him and he’s ‘tried’ to change things

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Author: Daniel Bird

Kirstie Allsopp shares candid comment on Phil Spencer ‘feud’ after co-star absent from wedding

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Author: Olivia Gantzer

Liam Payne’s girlfriend Kate Cassidy ‘could claim chunk of his £24m fortune’

Payne, 31, did not leave a will before his death in October and his fortune is set to go to his eight-year-old son Bear

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Author: Ekin Karasin

VE Day in pictures: Oxfordshire marks anniversary

Hundreds of people took part in processions, parades, afternoon teas and concerts on Thursday.

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Author: @BBCNews

Starmer: How I did it my way to reach trade deal with Trump

Exclusive: The last-minute call that sealed the deal between ‘grown ups’ and why Europe now sees Britain as a serious country to do business with as the PM takes The Independent inside the negotiations that secured his US trade deal

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Author: David Maddox

Winter fuel cuts ‘being discussed by Treasury’

More than 40 MPs want the Prime Minister to demand that Rachel Reeves reassess the proposed disability benefits changes

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Author: Daniel Martin

Boyfriend charged with murdering girlfriend two years after body was found

Stephen Sexton was previously charged with two counts of coercive and controlling behaviour following the death of Joanna Derkacz

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Author: Will Bolton

Voters like a UK-US trade deal, they just don’t think Trump will follow it

Less than one-third of UK adults and less than 45 percent of US adults believe Trump will abide by a trade agreement

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Author: Ariana Baio

Two men found guilty of chopping down Sycamore Gap tree

Two men have been found guilty of chopping down the Sycamore Gap tree in what prosecutors called a “deliberate and mindless act of destruction”.

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Author: @clarefallon

GOP Eyes Tax Hike on Endowments in Escalation of Ivy League Feud

House Republicans are considering increasing taxes on university endowments, a significant threat to some of the nation’s wealthiest schools as President Donald Trump seeks to tighten control over American higher education.

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Author: Nancy Cook,Erik Wasson

Republican Agenda Hits Familiar Obstacle: State and Local Taxes

A small group of Republicans are threatening to torpedo President Trump’s agenda over the state and local tax deduction, long a headache for both parties.

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Author: Andrew Duehren

Trump floats raising taxes on the rich to pay for his sweeping tax and spending cuts package

President Donald Trump said he’s open to hiking taxes on wealthy Americans to help pay for Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending cuts package, but the idea remains hotly contested among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

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Author: Lauren Fox, Sarah Ferris, Tami Luhby, Alayna Treene

Trump backs tax hike on the rich, but says GOP ‘probably’ shouldn’t do it

Trump’s Truth Social post shows his willingness to buck traditional Republican opposition to taxing the rich as he seeks to pass his agenda through Congress.

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Author: Kevin Breuninger

Former US supreme court Justice David Souter dies aged 85

Souter was a New Hampshire Republican who became a darling of liberals during his nearly 20 years on the bench

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Author: Guardian staff reporter

Trump fires Democrats on Consumer Product Safety Commission

The firings are his administration’s latest test to the limits of presidential power over independent agencies.

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Author: Todd C. Frankel,Maxine Joselow

Opinion | With crypto, Democrats finally put up a fight

Reports of a $2 billion cash infusion from the UAE to the Trump family firm were a bridge too far.

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Author: Molly Roberts