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  • ‘This isn’t just about Trump’: the Rev William Barber arrested after prayer-protest against Republican-led budget

    Eight were arrested at Moral Monday, an effort to stop a bill they say will slash vital healthcare for lower income people

    A police officer’s sense of timing seemed to illuminate the Rev William Barber’s moral mission with startling clarity.

    During a prayer vigil on Monday in the Capitol rotunda, close to the very heart of US democracy, Barber was lamenting that Congress starts each day with its own prayers to the almighty even while preying on the poor. Capitol police captain, John Hersch, serendipitously choose that very moment to intervene.

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  • Loan plan in Republican bill could worsen doctor shortage, experts warn

    Proposal to limit student loans for ‘professional programs’ risks driving people away from medicine, critics say

    Doctors’ associations, medical schools and student advocates warn that a proposal in the Republican-led budget bill being considered by Congress restricts graduate federal student loans and could worsen a national shortage of doctors.

    The new Republican proposal would limit federal student loans for “professional programs” – such as medical school – to $150,000, eliminate a federal graduate loan program and put limits on loan forgiveness.

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  • Woman’s life-saving treatment delayed by Trump cuts to NIH: ‘Cancer shouldn’t be political’

    Natalie Phelps, who has stage 4 colorectal cancer, has raised the alarm over how patients in the agency’s clinical trials are facing setbacks in treatment

    A 43-year-old woman and mother of two with advanced cancer says she is experiencing life-or-death delays in treatment because of the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

    Natalie Phelps, who has stage 4 colorectal cancer, has spoken publicly, raising the alarm about a setback in care for herself and others who are part of clinical trials run by the agency. Her story has made it into congressional hearings and spurred a spat between a Democratic senator and the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr. Behind the scenes, she and others are advocating to get her treatment started sooner.

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  • As Texas’s measles outbreak slows, officials warn of rise in other states

    Cases in New Mexico and Kansas give experts reason to be ‘concerned’ in second-worst US measles year since 2000

    The measles outbreak in Texas is showing signs of slowing, though other states are seeing more cases and health officials are warning against complacency as the US continues to experience high rates of measles amid falling vaccination rates.

    It has been a handful of days since anyone in Lubbock, Texas, has tested positive, and there are no known measles hospitalizations at the children’s hospital in the city, which has also cared for children from nearby Gaines county.

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  • ‘Fiscally irresponsible’: Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ benefits the rich at the expense of the poor

    Bill will make permanent huge tax cuts to the wealthy and cost the government $4.6tn over the next 10 years

    Republicans in Congress are trying to pass a new tax and spending bill that may end up being a “big, beautiful bill” – but mostly for wealthy Americans.

    With majorities in both the House and Senate, Republicans are working to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that is set to make permanent huge tax cuts that were established in 2017.

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  • Republican cuts to food and health benefits ‘will kill’, advocacy groups warn

    Provisions in Trump’s ‘beautiful bill’ include plans to cut billions of dollars in food and health benefits to the poor

    Advocacy groups associated with the left are urging some Republicans not to go along with a plan to cut health and food benefits to the poor.

    The lobbying campaign comes as Democrats are nearly powerless to stop the “One Big Beautiful Bill” act – a 1,100-page package of Donald Trump’s legislative priorities, from deporting migrants to building a border wall. Republicans hold majorities in both the House and Senate.

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  • Disarray at Department of Veterans Affairs imperils patient care, internal documents reveal

    Unit closures, reduced hours of operation and exam backlogs reported after Trump administration reductions

    The Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system, has been plunged into crisis amid canceled contracts, hiring freezes, resignations, layoffs and other moves by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), internal agency documents obtained by the Guardian show.

    The documents paint a grim picture of chaos across the department’s sprawling network of 170 veterans affairs (VA) hospitals and more than 1,300 outpatient clinics, which serve 9 million US military veterans.

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  • This doctor calls LGBTQ+ rights ‘satanic’. He could now undo healthcare for millions

    Exclusive: A rightwing activist behind a current supreme court challenge has spent decades railing against ‘homosexual behavior’

    Steven Hotze, a Republican donor from Texas, has spent decades fighting against LGBTQ+ rights, with campaigns seeking to roll back protections for people he has deemed “termites”, “morally degenerate” and “satanic”.

    The Houston-area physician is not well-known in mainstream politics, and his efforts targeting queer and trans people have generally been local, with limited impact.

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  • Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers

    A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents

    UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare conglomerate, has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to help slash hospital transfers for ailing residents – part of a series of cost-cutting tactics that has saved the company millions, but at times risked residents’ health, a Guardian investigation has found.

    Those secret bonuses have been paid out as part of a UnitedHealth program that stations the company’s own medical teams in nursing homes and pushes them to cut care expenses for residents covered by the insurance giant.

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  • US health groups vow to fight GOP cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare

    Cuts worth $880bn could leave 13 million Americans without insurance in proposal that has divided Republicans

    US advocacy groups are waging an intensive campaign to protect Medicaid and Obamacare from Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, after House Republicans proposed an $880bn cut that could leave an estimated 13 million Americans without health insurance.

    The House bill left Republicans’ most controversial proposals on the table, but has divided Senate Republicans: one called the effort to yank away healthcare “morally wrong and politically suicidal”. Others have described the cuts as insufficient and “anemic”.

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