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Sinvalda Oliveira of Marlborough says she voted for Donald Trump for president in 2024 because she wanted to see a tighter border and fewer immigrants flooding into the country. But the Brazilian immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen says she didn't expect Trump's campaign promise to remove "criminals" from the country to expand to local Brazilian construction workers, nannies and house cleaners, including one of her own friends. Now the 56-year-old longtime aesthetician says her business is floundering, many of her clients are staying home and she's worrying about the future. "If these raids keep going, we're all going to go broke," Oliveira told GBH News recently. "All the bakeries, all of the markets, we're not making enough money to pay our employees. It's crazy. It is horrible. It's not right."
A northeast Georgia hospital is closing its labor and delivery unit after determining that its precarious finances could not weather further funding cuts in President Donald Trump's new tax and spending law. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by congressional Republicans and signed on July Fourth slashes health care spending nationwide over the next 10 years by more than $1 trillion. In rural areas alone, federal Medicaid spending will be cut by about $137 billion, according to the health research organization KFF.
Donald Trump, the US president vying so hard for a Nobel Peace Prize that he renamed the US Department of Defense to the Department of War and issued a warning to Chicago referencing Apocalypse Now, has now bragged about ending another war " except this one never actually happened. Speaking at the American Cornerstone Institute's Founders' Dinner at Mount Vernon, Virginia on Saturday, the Republican boasted about his administration's work on a number of issues, including teasing an "announcement on autism" on Monday which comes after health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr vowed to find its cause "by September". But on peace deals, after mentioning the agreement he brokered between Armenia and Azerbaijan, he said: "We settled that war that was not settleable, as the expression goes. "Cambodia and Armenia, that was just starting, and it's a bad one " think of that."
The Trump administration has canceled the USDA's annual food insecurity survey, ending a decades-long effort to track how many Americans struggle to access enough food, the Agriculture Department said on Saturday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the Household Food Security Report had become "overly politicized" and was no longer necessary, though the 2024 edition will still be released in October; the 2025 survey will not be conducted, the USDA said in a statement. The cancellation of the report, which has been conducted for 30 years, comes amid rising food insecurity and recent cuts to federal food assistance programs, including tighter work requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients.
Adam Parkhomenko
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So let's get this straight:
Jimmy Kimmel criticizes the far-right.
ABC says he's back on air.
And Sinclair run by a guy who personally dropped $250K into Turning Point USA tells him he can only be broadcast if he donates to Turning Point USA himself.
Judd Legum
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UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production.
Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization.
David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.
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Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."
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What a gibbering dotard.
Stinky had all kinds of trouble trying to say acetaminophen.
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