A $ 9 billion termination package could endanger the future of hundreds of local NPR and PBS stations. Pam Bondi said he will request the release of “Great Jury Transcripts” in the case of Jeffrey Epstein. And how patients are using AI to challenge insurance claims denials.
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Congress sends $ 9 billion expenses to Trump’s desktop
President Donald Trump is expected to firm a bill that cuts $ 9 billion in expenses that Congress had already approved after the Chamber led by the Republicans voted during the night to approve the package. The Chamber voted 216-213 in favor of the package, with only two representatives of the Republican Party, Mike Turner of Ohio and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, joining the Democrats to oppose the measure.
The package cuts $ 1.1 billion of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides fund clips to NPR and PBS. Now, hundreds of member stations will face millions in budget cuts, and media defenders warn that the cuts would have a specially harmful impact on rural Americans, which can rely more at the points of sale for local news. Some stations are already reduced in advance of financing. Read more On how fund cuts could affect public media.
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The package reduces the $ 1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funds to NPR and PBS. Now, hundreds of member stations will face millions in budget cuts, and media defenders warn that they will have a specially harmful impact on rural Americans, who can rely more at the points of sale for local news. Some stations are already reducing the size of anticipation. Read more On how fund cuts could affect public media.
The package also cuts $ 8 billion of foreign aid, including the US agency for international development and programs to promote health and overall refugee assistance. However, $ 400 million in cuts to Pepfar, the popular HIV/AIDS world program that the then President George W. Bush began in 2003, was taken from the final package after a handful of Republicans joined the Democrats to oppose the cuts in the Senate. In search of tampeing the republican party rebellion, the White House agreed to drop the cuts of Pepfar. Read more About the program accredited with saving millions of lives.
The last package of $ 9 billion, which Trump requested, approved both Congress cameras with only republican votes through a rarely used “termination” process that can avoid the threshold of 60 votes in the Senate. The Democrats condemned the cuts as cruel and an attempt by the Republicans of seemingly responsible after the Republican party voted to add $ 3.3 billion to the debt in the Trump Internal Internal Policy Law project.
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More politics news:
- Democrat He left a meeting of the Senate Judicial Committee To advance the Nomination of Emil Bove, an official of a senior official of the Department of Justice and Trump’s personal lawyer, for a federal trial.
- Almost 79 million personal information from members to Medicaid It will be shared with federal immigration authorities While the Trump administration seeks to increase deportations.
- The Trump administration officially finished The Specialized Service of 988 suicide and Lifeline crisis for young LGBTQ.
- A day after he was fired as an American prosecutor, Maurene Comey wrote a memorando urging her colleagues To fight the “abuse of power.”
- Legislators presented a group of bills aimed at prohibiting or regulating chemicals that cause cancer In hair and beauty products marketed towards black women.
Trump denies the letter to Epstein and orders Bondi to seek the release of records
A new article of the Wall Street Journal claimed that Trump wrote a letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his birthday more than two decades ago. According to reports, it included a scheme of a naked woman and a “Donald” firm.
Trump denied the report. “I never wrote a photo in my life,” he told the newspaper. “I don’t draw photos of women.” Later, Trump confirmed his plans to seek legal actions against the newspaper; Your parent company, News Corp.; and Rupert Murdoch, the head of the organization.
Trump said yesterday in a publication on social networks that he directed to the attorney general Pam Bondi To launch “relevant testimony” Attached with the case of Jeffrey Epstein in the midst of the pressure of his supporters and some Republicans to obtain more transparency on the case. Bondi responded in X that the Department of Justice would request that the court “slow the transcripts of the Grand Jury” on Friday. Trump’s decision is produced in the middle of a rare splinter of its base on the decision of the Department of Justice earlier this month of not revealing a new information related to the investigation of Epstein, the financial whose death in 2019 in a New York prison has stimulated conspiracy theories.
Also yesterday, the White House said Trump I would not appoint a special lawyer To review the case, as they had advocated by some allies.
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Obamacare’s cost is expected to be triggered in 2026
Insurers who offer medical care plans through the low -price health care law are planning a 15% increase in 2026, the largest in seven years, according to a new analysis of the KFF Health Policies Research Group. That means that a family of three that wins $ 110,000 per year registered in a Silver Plan ACA could see its monthly cost jump from $ 779 to $ 1,662 in 2026, according to Kff. The finished plans, which include how much more people are expected to pay every month, are usually published around August.
The increase in the premium is probably in addition to the loss of improved subsidies, which helped people pay health plans here limiting costs to a certain proportion of their income. The subsidies, promulgated during the Biden Administration and extended until 2025, did not extend in the Internal Policy Law that Trump signed earlier this month. The president’s bill also added more obstacles to people who obtain their health insurance through ACA. “This is not a repeal [of the ACA]But it is certainly an attempt to move in that direction, ”said an expert. Read the full story here.
‘Late Show’ by Stephen Colbert will come to an end
CBS is closing the curtain in “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” next May, the network announced, ending the program that Colbert has been presented since 2015, and the franchise itself. CBS executives said yesterday in a joint statement that the measure “is a purely financial decision against a challenging backdrop at night” and is not related to the content of the program or “other issues that happen in Paramount.”
The CBS parent company, Paramount, is in the middle of a fusion of $ 8 billion with Hollywood Studio Skydance. Earlier this month, Paramount agreed in principle to resolve a lawsuit filed by Trump in an “60 minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, paying $ 16 million to the future Trump presidential library. Colbert had recently criticized the agreement, calling him “a big and fat bribe.” Read the full story here.
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- Trump is pressing so that Coca-Cola sweeps its products with cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. But is cane sugar really healthier? Experts Explain the negative impacts of both ingredients.
- The White House said Trump was diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency after being examined by “slight swelling” on his legs. This is what you should know About the non -mortal condition.
- JUUL CAN Continue selling your electronic cigarettes and filling cartridges, although the authorization of the FDA does not mean that the products are safe or “approved by the FDA”.
- A 22 -year -old could face life imprisonment in prison. After being accused of murder In the fatal shootings of a music supervisor “American Idol” and her husband in her home in Los Angeles.
- A couple saw in a kiss camera at a Coldplay concert Immediately hid his facesLeader, leader Chris Martin to joke they were having an adventure.
Staff selection: AI is helping patients fighting insurance companies
Stephanie Nixdorf, a survivor of cancer in stage 4 in Davidson, North Carolina, could not even open a cup of yogurt due to paralyzing arthritis caused by her immunotherapy. However, his health insurer, Premera Blue Cross, continued to reject her for a treatment that her doctors said she would help. Exasperated, she used an artificial intelligence tool to write an appeal letter full of clinical evidence that supports the treatment, and two days later, Premera approved it for the medication.
I spoke with Stephanie about his decision to resort to AI to get the treatment he needed. She is among a growing cohort of patients who are fed up with the denial of the insurance company And they are finding new ways of defending themselves. – Gretchen MorgensonSenior financial reporter
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