The cruelty is the point. No child should go to school hungry. The Trump administration's move to cancel free school lunches for hundreds of thousands of children is cruel.
About a half-million students could lose access to free school meals under a Trump administration proposal to limit the number of people who qualify for food stamps, harm[ing] needy schoolchildren.
The cruelty is the point.
The Trump administration will withhold funds from the United Nations agency focused on reproductive and maternal health care for a third consecutive year.... the decision will hurt vulnerable women and children, undermine US interests and is not based on evidence.
Withholding funds for reproductive and maternal health care from UNFPA for a third consecutive year will hurt vulnerable women and children.
Meanwhile as Trump fills the news with none stop corruption and hate, Republican policies are leading to the shuttering of rural hospitals across the United States. And if the Republican lawsuit to kill the ACA succeeds, the wave will become a deadly tsunami.
More than half of all rural hospitals in Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia and Oklahoma lost money from 2011 through 2017.
This is a nightmare. The 5th Circuit looks poised to destroy all or most of the ACA—stripping healthcare from millions—on the basis of an absurd legal theory that is impossible to explain with a straight face.
The Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of a federal program to prevent teen pregnancy in 2017 was directed by political appointees over the objections of career experts. Three appointees with strict pro-abstinence beliefs — including Valerie Huber, the then-chief of staff for the department's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health — guided the process to end a program many medical professionals credit with helping to bring the nation’s teen
The evil and hate is the point. Let's not mince words. This is a government of Republicans who are attempting to discriminate against everyone except non-white males.
Trump administration officials are working on a new rule that... could blow up the nondiscrimination protections of the Affordable Care Act for LGBTQ individuals and make it easier for hospitals, physicians or insurers to deny care or coverage to transgender people for religious reasons.
This is a very big deal that must not be lost amidst all else going on. The pain caused by their evil is their goal.
The Trump administration hastaken a step toward changing the way the poverty threshold is calculated, a move that could strip many low-income Americans of their federal benefits.
The EPA plans to adopt a new method for projecting the future health risks of air pollution, one that experts said has never been peer-reviewed and is not scientifically sound.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule because it would result in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution....
More than 1 million Americans have lost their health insurance under the Trump administration. They've sabotaged the Affordable Care Act every step of the way.
For over two years, Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series has exposed Trump's proposed budget cuts, finding savage proposals hidden beneath the surface. The Trump White House proposed their third budget in mid-March 2019 and we're wrapping up our Series by posting exclusively about it this week.
In today's Budget Cut Series we're talking about Social Security. These sorts of cuts make us wonder why ANYONE votes for Republicans.