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As President Trump pushes House Republicans to support a sweeping budget bill that gives massive tax breaks to the rich while slashing spending for Medicaid, food stamps and subsidies for clean energy, we look at a new series for The Lever's podcast Lever Time, which covers the history of the Republican anti-tax movement and how their anti-government influence is impacting Trump's attempts to build power. The anti-tax activist wing "has made it impossible for this party to raise taxes, which then makes it very difficult to actually govern when you're the party in power," explains Lever Time co-host Arjun Singh. Singh breaks down the roots of the movement and its impact in the MAGA era.
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Republicans have readied a plan to overturn California's law phasing out gas-powered vehicles, using a statute aimed at striking down federal regulations. Democrats say it's an end run around Senate rules.
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Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed Republican budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid, affordable housing and more. "We're putting our bodies on the line [because] our bodies are on the line," says Julie Farrar, an activist with ADAPT, which organized the protest. "It is blood on the hands of the GOP and the president and the administration, that they want this big, beautiful bill for billionaires that will kill poor people [and] disabled people."
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A damning new report reveals how Israel is systematically making Gaza unlivable. The independent news outlet 972 Magazine has spoken to Israeli soldiers who describe how they have been using bulldozers and explosives to intentionally flatten Gaza.
In the southern city of Rafah, 73% of buildings are completely destroyed, with only about 4% of the infrastructure remaining undamaged. "The real aim is to make it impossible for the Palestinians to return to these areas," says Meron Rapoport, co-author of the 972 Magazine report.
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The president visited the weekly meeting of House Republicans to make the case for the legislation and pressure members of his party to fall into line. Later, negotiations with key holdouts appeared to be bearing fruit.
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Representative LaMonica McIver, Democrat of New Jersey, faces assault charges after a clash outside a migrant detention center in Newark. She has denied the government's depiction of events.
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The Department of Justice also announced it was dropping a trespassing charge against the city's mayor, Ras Baraka, stemming from the same episode.
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