House Republicans Pass “Big Beautiful Bill” That Cuts Medicaid and Gives Trump the Powers of a King
Last week, House Republicans met early in the morning to pass one of the largest wealth transfers in American history — cutting billions of dollars in Medicaid, food assistance, and reproductive healthcare to fund new tax breaks for the rich.
Contrary to the name, there is nothing beautiful about Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill Act.” Rather, the cuts are a direct attack against working-class families that will strip healthcare away from up to 13.7 million Americans — leaving people sicker, hungrier, and poorer under Trump’s watch.
Worse, the legislation also contains a hidden provision that would give Trump the powers of a king. Specifically, the bill would restrict the judicial branch’s ability to enforce contempt of court charges, giving Trump and his cabinet the ability to ignore judges’ orders with impunity.
Trump’s big, disastrous bill isn’t just an attack against low-income Americans — it’s an attack against the rule of law.
For the sake of struggling families and democracy itself, Every State Democrats urge senators to block this cruel bill.
Trump’s West Point Commencement Speech Raises New Cognitive Fitness Concerns
Over Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump delivered erratic and confused remarks to the graduating class of the United States Military Academy at West Point, prompting new concerns about his mental fitness.
Among other questionable comments from his highly politicized commencement address, Trump warned graduates against marrying ‘trophy wives.’
“He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife. Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife,” Trump said of real estate investor Bill Levitt. “But that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives, it doesn’t work.”
Trump has been married three times — coincidentally, all to professional models.
Likewise, despite delivering an address that should have highlighted the dedication and achievement of students, the president often centered the speech around his own trials and accomplishments.
“You know, I work all the time. That’s all I do is work, whether it’s politically. Or before that, I did — I was a very good businessman in case you haven’t heard, really good,” Trump told cadets. “I went through a very tough time with some very radicalized sick people, and I say, I was investigated more than the great late Alphonse Capone.”
Predictably, the president also used his time to campaign against DEI and inclusivity, both at the university and within the United States military as a whole.
“The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” he said. “There will be no more critical race theory or transgender for everybody forced onto our brave men and women in uniform — or on anybody else for that matter, in this country.”
After the president’s inauguration, West Point shut down a wide range of student clubs to comply with the administration’s anti-diversity push. The affected organizations included the Corbin Forum — a campus leadership forum for women — and Spectrum, a gay-straight alliance.
After listening to the speech, some Democratic leaders, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, have called Trump’s cognitive fitness into question.
“It is time for Republicans to start calling him out and start questioning his mental acuity, and whether or not he is equipped to serve mentally,” the Texas representative told MSNBC. “I don’t think that those who have gone through West Point expected to have their commander-in-chief address them and start talking about trophy wives.”
Trump Flips Out Over His New Wall Street Nickname — “TACO”
Wall Street insiders have a hilarious new shorthand for Donald Trump’s trade policies, and the president isn’t taking it kindly.
Coined by the Financial Times writer Robert Armstrong, traders have started referring to Trump’s tendency to impose and then quickly retract tariffs as the “TACO trade,” an acronym for “Trump Always Chickens Out.”
Investors have realized “that the U.S. administration does not have a very high tolerance for market and economic pressure, and will be quick to back off when tariffs cause pain,” Armstrong wrote in a May 2 column. “This is the TACO theory: Trump Always Chickens Out.”
Unsurprisingly, Trump became upset when reporters asked him about the nickname during a press conference on Wednesday.
“It’s called negotiation. You set a number, and if you go down. You know, if I set a number, a ridiculous high number, and I go down a little bit, you know, a little bit, they want me to hold that number,” Trump responded. “Don’t ever say what you said. That’s a nasty question — to me, that’s the nastiest question.”
Federal Trade Court Strikes Down Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs
In a major blow to Donald Trump’s isolationist trade policies, a federal court ruled on Wednesday that the president lacks the authority to impose sweeping global tariffs without congressional approval.
Since retaking office, Trump has imposed tariffs under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a law which Republicans contend gives the administration broad authority to regulate international trade during a period of national emergency.
The unanimous ruling issued by a three-judge panel found that Trump exceeded his legal authority in regulating trade without there being a clearly defined national emergency to justify his actions.
“By claiming the authority to impose immense and ever-changing tariffs on whatever goods entering the United States he chooses, for whatever reason he finds convenient to declare an emergency, the President has upended the constitutional order and brought chaos to the American economy,” court documents stated.
Elon Musk Exits the Trump Administration, Leaving Behind a Legacy of Death and Corruption
After spearheading misguided efforts to reduce government spending — culminating in thousands of layoffs and the evisceration of long-standing government agencies — oligarch Elon Musk finally announced his departure from the Trump administration on Wednesday.
“As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank [President Trump] for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending,” the world’s richest man wrote on Twitter. “The [DOGE] mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.”
During his time in the White House, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) failed to reach its stated goal of cutting $2 trillion from government spending. That number declined the longer he spent inside the administration, shrinking to $1 trillion and eventually down to $150 billion.
Although DOGE’s cuts failed to meet Elon Musk’s targets, they have nevertheless affected some of the world's most vulnerable populations.
Namely, humanitarian organizations fear that the administration’s downsizing of USAID will result in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths across the developing world by the end of the decade. Without the help of American foreign aid, doctors believe that the spread of Malaria, HIV/AIDS, and famines will make a resurgence within the affected countries.
In addition to the harm that he’s brought upon people’s lives, both in America and around the world, Elon Musk will also leave behind a stain of political corruption in Washington. Back during the 2024 election cycle, the oligarch CEO and government contractor spent at least $250 to elect Donald Trump and other down-ballot Republicans — often sporting “Dark MAGA” campaign merchandise at rallies.
Likewise, once his Tesla electric automotive brand suffered declining sales from the resulting political backlash, Musk had the president turn the White House lawn into a makeshift showroom to protect his sales, even giving Trump a script of his cars’ features and pricing.