June 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM EDT
'Don't know if we can afford it': Pro-Trump senator worried about this line in budget bill

President Donald Trump's massive "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is now attracting some unexpected opposition in the form of one of his biggest supporters in the U.S. Senate. Politico reported Wednesday that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) is now openly expressing concern about one particular provision in the legislation that would shift part of the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program, or SNAP (more commonly known as food stamps) to individual states. While the federal government has always provided 100% of the funding for food stamps, the GOP's budget bill now asks states to pick up some of the costs for the program that helps low-income Americans afford groceries.

June 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM EDT
'Menacing new frontier': Legal expert torches Trump's pardons -- and offers 3 solutions

Legal scholar Lee Kovarsky said in an an op-ed published in the New York Times Wednesday that President Donald Trump has "transformed the pardon practice into a menacing new frontier of presidential power." The author characterized Trump's recent pardons as a case of "patronage pardoning," suggesting that the president is diminishing the anticipated consequences for misconduct among his loyalists by overtly pardoning political allies. "This blunt instrument of venality and regime control is a standing public commitment to protect and reward loyalism, however criminal," Koversky added.

June 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM EDT
'We made government the Newark airport': Lawmaker mocks GOP and Trump failures

During a House committee hearing, U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) sharply""and sharp wittedly""criticized Republicans and the Trump administration for failing to achieve the very goals they had set for themselves. The Florida Democrat, known for his cutting sarcasm, opened his seveeral-minute monologue by likening the federal government under Trump and GOP control to Newark Airport""plagued for months by air traffic control meltdowns. He also mocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying no efficiencies have been created and they should "rebrand," by dropping the "E." Moskowitz himself rebranded the Republicans' budget bill, the so-called "Big, Beautiful Bill," as the "Big, Bloated Abomination Bill."

June 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM EDT
'Hard to understate the damage': How Trump's newest tariff could kill thousands of jobs

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced that he was raising his 25% tariff on imported steel and aluminum to 50%. While he argued this was necessary to protect American steel manufacturing, one of the nation's leading newspapers of record is warning it could actually end up putting thousands of Americans out of work. The Washington Post editorial board is now arguing that the economic impact of Trump's tariffs could be felt for years, even if the tariffs are only in place temporarily. The paper pointed to relatively recent historical precedent, when former President George W. Bush imposed tariffs on imported steel products of 8% to 30% on every country save for Canada, Israel, Jordan and Mexico. According to a study by the Tax Foundation, any positive outcome the Bush administration hoped to create for the American steel industry was overshadowed by the massive blow to the economy as a result of the tariffs.

June 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM EDT
'We don't have time': Mike Johnson begs Elon Musk to stop attacking budget bill

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday it is not possible to start over with a new version of President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill." Johnson reportedly said he still hasn't been able to reach tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has publicly come out against the GOP's crucial bill.

June 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM EDT
'Swamp isn't being drained': Far-right MAGA fan slams Trump

President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" -- which narrowly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives in a 215-214 vote and is now being hotly debated in the U.S. Senate -- is drawing intense criticism from both the left and the right, albeit for different reasons. Many Democrats vehemently oppose the bill's draconian cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but Elon Musk and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) believe the cuts don't go far enough.

June 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM EDT
Young men in crisis feel ignored by 'weak' Dems -- and see GOP as stronger: study

A controversial $20 million study examining why young American men are leaving the Democratic Party paints a sobering picture""and confirms growing concerns about liberals' hold on a critical voting bloc, according to its initial findings. "Democrats are seen as weak, whereas Republicans are seen as strong," Ilyse Hogue, co-founder of the Speaking with American Men (SAM) project, told Politico. "Young men also spoke of being invisible to the Democratic coalition, and so you've got this weak problem and then you've got this, 'I don't think they care about me' problem, and I think the combination is kind of a killer."

June 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM EDT
'Not enough': Bernie Sanders blasts Dem handling of Trump

Four and one-half months into Donald Trump's second presidency, two of his prominent critics on the left -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), both self-described "democratic socialists" -- are touring the United States together and bringing their anti-MAGA agenda to large audiences. The fact that they come from different generations is no coincidence. Sanders, at 83, is a member of the Silent Generation, while the 35-year-old AOC is a Millennial. And Sanders views her as important to his multi-generation outreach.

June 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM EDT
Trump hate fuels success of new Springsteen release: report

Sales of music legend Bruce Springsteen's new album don't appear to be suffering from President Donald Trump's hate, according to Forbes. "The Boss" released an unplanned EP, and in its second week of availability, it blew up on international charts, just in time for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 'Land of Hope and Dreams Tour'.

June 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM EDT
Pro-Trump pastor faces damning allegations of 'financial crimes' and 'psychological abuse'

Evangelical singer/preacher Sean Feucht has been a prominent figure in the MAGA movement, preaching far-right Christian nationalist views and heading the nonprofits Sean Feucht Ministries and Light a Candle. Feucht, according to Rolling Stone, founded the group Pastors for Trump and said that "America should be governed according to biblical law for the benefit of believers as a way to prepare for the second coming of Christ."

June 4, 2025 at 6:12 AM EDT
The MAGA death cult's entire game was just exposed by one clerical error

The other night, I slept like a bear. Before the bomb hit November 8, 2016, that would not have merited public mention, but for too many of us sleep has come hard for the better part of the last decade.

June 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM EDT
The truth behind Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' -- and its impact on Obamacare

Millions would lose Medicaid coverage. Millions would be left without health insurance. Signing up for health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces would be harder and more expensive. President Donald Trump's domestic policy legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that cleared the House in May and now moves to the Senate, could also be called Obamacare Repeal Lite, its critics say. In addition to causing millions of Americans to lose their coverage under Medicaid, the health program for low-income and disabled people, the measure includes the most substantial rollback of the ACA since Trump's Republican allies tried to pass legislation in 2017 that would have largely repealed President Barack Obama's signature domestic accomplishment.