Tag: One Big Beautiful Bill Act

The Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill: 1 Year Later With Lenny McAllister

Writer and political commentator Lenny McAllister spoke to NewsOne about his perspective on The Big Beautiful Bill and the work still ahead. Source: creative services / iOne Digital A year has passed since President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) into law on July 3, 2025, promising to strengthen the […]

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Social Security Is Running Dangerously Low on Cash

“Many Iranian football fans, relying on the officially announced process, had already made the necessary plans to attend the matches,” the FFIRI, Iran’s soccer federation, said in a statement. “Depriving Iranian supporters of access to their lawful and official allocation of tickets is an action contrary to the spirit governing international competitions and the principle […]

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SNAP Cuts Threaten to Cut Young Adults Off at the Knees

Even before its passage, SNAP had “always had a very rigorous application process” that was difficult for young adults to navigate, said Ed Bolen, director of SNAP state strategies at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Research suggests that young adults already have difficulty accessing social safety net benefits. Roughly 55 percent of the […]

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Trump’s Budget Kicked One Woman Off SNAP Over a Birthday Gift

“An impeachment is basically an indictment and it’s an indictment that you can’t really be acquitted from. If you are impeached by the House, famously, ‘Where do you go to get your reputation back?’ is the question,” Issa said to Fox News Digital. “And that’s sort of a problem that we’re dealing with, which is […]

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Trump’s Budget Is About to Force Hundreds of Hospitals to Close

During that period, federal agents cuffed more than 3,700 Minnesota residents, according to the dataset. But the numbers may still be higher: In early February, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo claiming that agency officials had arrested more than 4,000 individuals in the state, emphasizing that the detainees included “murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang […]

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Wait, Did the Democrats Just Win a Government Shutdown Fight?

Still, it’s a deal that suggests that Democrats are still paying for mistakes they made at the start of Trump’s second term. In January 2025, in the wake of Democrats’ shocking election loss, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gave vulnerable members an opportunity to showcase their hard-line immigration credentials: He signaled he would vote to […]

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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Is Hitting Republican States Hard

Marc Andreessen, the egghead, Twitter-obsessed co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. His net worth is estimated at $1.9 billion. Interestingly, Andreessen generally voted Democrat until 2024, when he concluded that Joe Biden’s administration “flat-out tried to kill us”—by which he meant they were attempting to regulate crypto and AI. Andreessen promptly donated $2.5 […]

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The Supreme Court Blew Trump’s Budget to Smithereens

Furthermore, it’s pretty likely some court will conclude that Trump’s use of section 122 is illegal too. No president ever invoked it before, and now Trump is invoking it against every other country on Planet Earth. The statutory language says section 122 authority can be used only against nations with whom the United States has […]

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