With Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” Congress Traded Your Pap Smear for a Billionaire’s Tax Break In the NewsJuly 9, 2025 With Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” Congress Traded Your Pap Smear for a Billionaire’s Tax Break Kierra B. Jones writes in Teen Vogue about the effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on access to reproductive health care. Jul 9, 2025 Teen Vogue Kierra B. Jones
What Trump’s Anti-Environment One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Your Wallet, Health, and Safety ArticleJuly 7, 2025 What Trump’s Anti-Environment One Big Beautiful Bill Act Means for Your Wallet, Health, and Safety In addition to cutting health care and food assistance programs, the act’s energy and environmental provisions would raise energy costs, increase pollution affecting Americans’ health, and increase safety risks in a worsening climate. Jul 7, 2025 Lucero Marquez, Jasia Smith
The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act Endangers the Transformation of Contaminated Sites for Clean Energy Production ArticleJuly 7, 2025 The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act Endangers the Transformation of Contaminated Sites for Clean Energy Production The congressional Republican spending bill, which President Donald Trump recently signed into law, kills tax credits that help communities turn idle toxic sites such as brownfields and abandoned mines into sources of clean energy and revenue. Jul 7, 2025 Alia Hidayat, Dylan Nezaj
The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare ArticleJuly 3, 2025 The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare The Center for American Progress and The Arc break down the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, exposing how its deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare will lead to benefit losses, increased paperwork requirements, and rural hospital closures that will hurt Americans—especially people with disabilities. Jul 3, 2025 Mia Ives-Rublee, Kim Musheno
10 Egregious Things You May Not Know About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ArticleJuly 3, 2025 10 Egregious Things You May Not Know About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Congressional Republicans’ radical budget and tax bill includes several less-known provisions that will increase costs, fuel the Trump administration’s overreach, and waste taxpayer dollars. Jul 3, 2025 Colin Seeberger, Andrea Ducas, Natasha Murphy, 9 More Kierra B. Jones, Andrés Argüello, Lily Roberts, Kyle Ross, Michael Sozan, Silva Mathema, Sara Partridge, Paige Shoemaker DeMio, Corey Husak
$1 Trillion in Medicaid Cuts—$1 Trillion in Tax Giveaways for the Richest 1 Percent: The One Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill’s Budget Math ArticleJuly 3, 2025 $1 Trillion in Medicaid Cuts—$1 Trillion in Tax Giveaways for the Richest 1 Percent: The One Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill’s Budget Math The congressional Republican bill will cause millions of low-income Americans to lose Medicaid coverage in order to fund tax giveaways for the top 1 percent of households. Jul 3, 2025 Micah Johnson, Andrea Ducas
You Thought Medicare Was Safe? Think Again. In the NewsJuly 1, 2025 You Thought Medicare Was Safe? Think Again. In an op-ed published by The Contrarian, Donald Berwick explains how congressional Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill threatens to cut more than $535 billion from Medicaid over the next nine years. Jul 1, 2025 The Contrarian Donald Berwick
For disabled Americans, Medicaid work requirements don’t work In the NewsJune 30, 2025 For disabled Americans, Medicaid work requirements don’t work In an op-ed published by The Contrarian, Mia Ives-Rublee and external co-author Nicole Jorwic illustrate how Medicaid work requirements proposed in Repblicans' tax and budget bill will harm disabled Americans. Jun 30, 2025 The Contrarian Mia Ives-Rublee, Nicole Jorwic
The Top 5 Ways the Congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill Will Harm Disabled Students ReportJune 30, 2025 The Top 5 Ways the Congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill Will Harm Disabled Students Disabled students will be disproportionately hurt by the Republican budget reconciliation bill, losing access to essential services and resources that support their education and help them become contributing members of their communities. Jun 30, 2025 Mia Ives-Rublee, Weadé James
Fact Sheet: Trump’s Rescission Request Would Slash Spending on Foreign Assistance Programs That Benefit American Interests Fact SheetJune 30, 2025 Fact Sheet: Trump’s Rescission Request Would Slash Spending on Foreign Assistance Programs That Benefit American Interests The Trump administration’s FY 2025 rescission package would eliminate more than $8 billion in investments critical to global health, stability, and democracy while the administration increases spending in areas that bring little benefit to the American people. Jun 30, 2025 Laura Kilbury
LGBTQI+ People Are Underinsured and Experience Health Insurance Discrimination in Key Areas ArticleJune 30, 2025 LGBTQI+ People Are Underinsured and Experience Health Insurance Discrimination in Key Areas New Center for American Progress survey findings demonstrate how LGBTQI+ people are at greater risk of losing access to health care under the proposed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Jun 30, 2025 Haley Norris
4 Reasons the Senate’s AI Pause Should Be Opposed ArticleJune 27, 2025 4 Reasons the Senate’s AI Pause Should Be Opposed U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s AI pause would block states subject to it from enforcing laws that protect residents from AI-driven harms, including criminal offenses and health care decisions. Senators should vote to remove it from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act during reconciliation. Jun 27, 2025 Nicole Alvarez, Adam Conner