#healthcare-cuts

#healthcare-cuts

The United States government is officially closed. Starting on Wednesday at 12.01am Washington time, the federal government ran out of money. Agencies and departments designed to protect consumers, workers and investors are now officially closed, as are national parks and museums. Most federal workers are not being paid as many as 750,000 could be furloughed including those who are required to remain on the job, like air-traffic controllers or members of the US military.

The Grants Pass Supreme Court decision said that you can clear encampments, even if you have nowhere for folks to go. This is going a step further and saying you can put people into institutions against their will.

"There's a lot the state can do-they certainly should not be exacerbating the federal impacts," Williams said. "The most recent budget adopted by the state layers its own medical cuts on top of federal cuts, and that is very concerning. The state needs to take care of its public hospital systems."

"I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans who are not going to be advantaged by this bill. I don't like that."

Today, Donald Trump and the Republican party sent a message to America: if you are not a billionaire, we don't give a damn about you, said Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chair. While the GOP continues to cash their billionaire donors' checks, their constituents will starve, lose critical medical care, lose their jobs and yes, some will die as a result of this bill.

The bill proposes sweeping cuts, amounting to $1 trillion, to healthcare programs including Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, severely impacting low-income Americans.

The US Senate is holding a marathon vote on a sprawling budget vital to Donald Trump's agenda, proposing sweeping tax breaks and cuts to healthcare.

GOP leaders are rushing to meet Trump's Fourth of July deadline to pass the package, but they barely secured enough support to muscle it past a procedural Saturday night hurdle.

The effects on Harvard are damaging American competitiveness, since a number of researchers are leaving the US for opportunities in other countries.