Health care after the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s big, beautiful bill: less care, more deaths

Health care after the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s big, beautiful bill: less care, more deaths

While public attention has largely been focused on the Middle East and on President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, Republicans in Congress are on the verge of passing massive Medicaid cuts as part of a budget bill that could lead to millions of Americans losing their health insurance benefits and, according to one recent estimate, thousands … Read more

White House confirms teenage DOGE employee ‘Big Balls’ has resigned

White House confirms teenage DOGE employee ‘Big Balls’ has resigned

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A White House official confirmed to Fox News that a teenaged employee with the nickname “Big Balls” has resigned from his post at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), adding to the recent shakeup within the department. The now-former DOGE employee – whose real name is Edward … Read more

New study: Harvests of staple crops like wheat and rice will see big drops due to climate change

New study: Harvests of staple crops like wheat and rice will see big drops due to climate change

Globally, humanity is producing more food than ever, but that harvest is concentrated in just a handful of breadbaskets. More than one-third of the world’s wheat and barley exports come from Ukraine and Russia, for example. Some of these highly productive farmlands, including major crop-growing regions in the United States, are on track to see … Read more

Senate Finance Committee’s version of the ‘big, beautiful bill’ sets up a potential clash with the House

Senate Finance Committee’s version of the ‘big, beautiful bill’ sets up a potential clash with the House

The Senate Finance Committee unveiled its proposed changes to the House-passed version of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Monday night, which could put the two chambers on a collision course. The Senate proposal reflects an extension of the Trump 2017 tax cuts, a debt limit increase to avoid a potential default later this … Read more

5 possible changes that could hold up Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ in the Senate

5 possible changes that could hold up Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ in the Senate

The Senate has long been signaling that changes to the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” are coming, and as Congress barrels toward President Donald Trump’s July 4 deadline, the contours of those changes are beginning to take shape. Senators met for over two hours on Wednesday to hear updates from committee chairs about proposed changes … Read more

Poll: 53% of Americans oppose Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ GOP spending bill

Poll: 53% of Americans oppose Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ GOP spending bill

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! As the Senate debates the GOP’s massive landmark spending and tax cut bill – dubbed by President Donald Trump as his “big, beautiful bill” – a new national poll indicates that a majority of American voters oppose the measure. Fifty-three percent questioned in a new Quinnipiac University … Read more

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill sets America up to fail on AI

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill sets America up to fail on AI

I’m writing this on a plane back to Washington, DC, from a conference in the Bay Area, the land of tomorrow. While the conference wasn’t about AI, this is the Bay Area, and thus roughly 90 percent of conversations were about AI. It is hard to overstate the scale of the gap between the cultures … Read more

Explainer: Trump’s big, beautiful bill, in 5 charts

Explainer: Trump’s big, beautiful bill, in 5 charts

The fight over President Donald Trump’s so-called big, beautiful bill is turning ugly. After passing the GOP-controlled House, the bill has moved to the Senate, where Republicans are facing a bitter divide over how to balance their competing priorities. They want to extend and expand Trump’s tax cuts, which disproportionately benefit the rich and come … Read more

The big, beautiful bill is bad news for student loans

The big, beautiful bill is bad news for student loans

If the “big, beautiful bill,” President Donald Trump’s signature legislative priority, eventually becomes law, it would gut some social programs that many people rely on. As my colleague Dylan Scott wrote in a thorough explainer, the package, which House Republicans passed last month, could result in millions of people losing their health care because of … Read more