In a truly deplorable Independence Day ceremony, Donald Trump and his Republican henchmen commemorated the 4th of July by signing their “Big, Beautiful Bill” into law — defunding Medicaid, cutting SNAP benefits from hungry children, and granting ICE an inflated budget comparable to foreign armies.

In a horrid act of MAGA sycophancy, Senate Republicans voted to approve a modified version of Trump’s big, ugly wealth transfer — a monstrous budget that makes huge cuts to Medicaid, starves food assistance programs, and raises the federal deficit by three trillion dollars, all to give billionaire oligarchs a historically unprecedented tax break.

Within the first five months of Trump’s second presidency,  the Republican-led administration has already entered America into another war in the Middle East, this time against Iran.

In a gruesome act of targeted political violence, two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were shot inside their homes by a masked assassin the same day millions of people would later take to the streets to protest MAGA authoritarianism.

Trump and his fascist enablers have capitalized on infrequent scenes of burning cars and property damage to justify advancing to the next state of their authoritarian plot: deploying armed soldiers against the American people.