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- The Big, Beautiful Republican Shrug
When Democrats reshaped the American health-insurance system in 2010, Republicans accused them of all manner of legislative foul play: Middle-of-the-night votes. Backroom deals. An enormous, partisan bill jammed through Congress before anyone could find out what was in it. “Have you read the bill? Hell no you haven’t!” an indignant then-House Minority Leader John Boehner thundered on the House floor.The GOP’s claims were exaggerated. But as Republicans rushed President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” through the House this week, they committed just about every procedural misdeed they had ascribed to Democrats back then—and more. The final text of a 1,100-page bill that Speaker Mike Johnson described as “the most consequential legislation that any party has ever passed” became public just hours before Republicans approved it on a party-line vote. They scheduled a pivotal hearing to begin at 1 a.m. and waived their own rules meant to give lawmakers at least… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago - Trump Addresses a Military He’s Remaking in His ImageThe last time President Donald Trump addressed Army cadets at West Point, he was locked in a dramatic conflict with America’s military establishment.Two days before Trump spoke to the academy’s graduates in June 2020, Army General Mark Milley, the nation’s top military officer, had made an extraordinary televised apology for having appeared in uniform with the president outside the White House, after security personnel used force to clear peaceful protesters from the scene.Two weeks before Trump’s commencement address, Defense Secretary Mark Esper had made what turned out to be an irreparable break with the president when he pushed back on Trump’s desire to use active-duty troops to put down unrest triggered by the killing of George Floyd. Trump had mused about shooting protesters in the legs, according to Esper, who later wrote, “What transpired that day would leave me deeply troubled about the leader of our country and the decisions… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago
- What RFK Jr. Doesn’t Understand About AutismSubscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsExpressing concern can sometimes be a delicate endeavor. One can intend to be empathetic, but the target of concern hears only condescension and pity. So it is with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who recently talked about how much autistic children suffer. These poor kids, he said at a July 16 press conference, would never “pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use the toilet unassisted.” Listening to Kennedy, some parents of autistic children felt seen. “I found myself nodding along as Mr. Kennedy spoke about the grim realities of profound autism,” Emily May, whose daughter has limited verbal ability, wrote in The New York Times. But our guest this week, Eric Garcia, who attended the… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- Will Republicans Say No to Trump?Representative Tim Burchett is fond of saying no.The fourth-term Tennessean was one of the eight renegade Republicans who helped oust Kevin McCarthy, and when Speaker Mike Johnson tries to rally the party around legislation, many times Burchett is one of the last holdouts. As Burchett left the Capitol on Monday, he complained to me: “It’s always the conservatives that have to compromise.”He doesn’t want to compromise on President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the economic proposal that is pitting the party’s hard-line right wing (that’s Burchett) against members who could lose their seat by supporting legislation to extend a windfall for the wealthy while reducing benefits for those at the bottom of the income scale. Burchett is frustrated that the bill adds trillions to the nation’s debt and does not slash enough spending. He warned GOP leaders not to “poke the bear” by once again caving to more… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- Trump’s Shrinking Plan to End the Russia-Ukraine WarFor years, President Donald Trump has bragged that he, and only he, could bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. “I’ll have that done in 24 hours,” he said repeatedly during his most recent presidential campaign. Once back in the White House, he told advisers to plan for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the hope of creating a made-for-TV spectacle during which he could formally announce a resolution to the war, two administration officials and an outside adviser told me.But plans are now shifting, those officials said. (I agreed not to name them so that they could discuss internal deliberations.) Trump still wants to establish closer ties with Putin, and the White House will likely revisit the possibility of a meeting before long. But officials now expect that any such summit won’t involve negotiations to end the fighting.After months of pushing for a cease-fire deal, the United… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- The Off-Boarding of Elon Musk“Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!”Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was shouting at Elon Musk in the halls of the West Wing last month, loud enough for Donald Trump to hear and in a language that he could certainly understand. Bessent and Musk were fighting over which of them should choose the next IRS leader—and, implicitly, over Musk’s bureaucracy-be-damned crusade. Without securing the Treasury chief’s sign-off, Musk had pushed through his own pick for the job. Bessent was, quite obviously, not having it.The fight had started outside the Oval Office; it continued past the Roosevelt Room and toward the chief of staff’s office, and then barreled around the corner to the national security adviser’s warren. Musk accused Bessent of having run two failed hedge funds. “I can’t hear you,” he told Bessent as they argued, their faces just inches apart. “Say it louder.”Musk came to Washington all Cybertrucks and chain saws,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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