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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Curtis Hertel
GOP Candidates Agree: No Healthcare Choice for Women
✹ House Appropriations Vice Chair Alabas Farhat
The GOP Roadblock to a Budget
VIDEO: Here’s the New Messaging for the Midterms – Lincoln Square
In the News
The GOP Death Agenda
- Medicaid cuts in ‘big, beautiful bill’ could hit 200K-700K in Michigan – Detroit Free Press
- Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers – The New York Times
- Vaccine Shortages. Viral Outbreaks. Widespread Illness. More Death. – The New Republic
- RFK Jr.’s vaccine policies and earlier promises conflict – AP News
- Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots – The New York Times
- The Renewable-Energy Sector’s Relative Winners and Losers in the Megabill – Wall Street Journal
- China’s Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future – The New York Times
- USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says – Reuters
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Democratic groups target ‘non-political spaces’ in new campaign ahead of fall elections and 2026 midterms – NBC News
- Democratic State Attorneys General Are Now the Most Powerful People in the Trump Resistance – NOTUS.org
- 6 laws in 6 months: Michigan’s divided Legislature off to slowest start in decades – Bridge Michigan
- No deal: In blow to schools, Michigan’s divided Legislature misses budget deadline – Bridge Michigan
- Republicans cheer, Democrats jeer passage of sweeping Trump bill – Detroit Free Press
- Medicaid cuts in ‘big, beautiful bill’ could hit 200K-700K in Michigan – Detroit Free Press
- Michigan rural hospitals at risk under Trump’s ‘beautiful’ bill, experts say – Bridge Michigan
- Trump administration withholding $157M in funding for Michigan schools – Detroit News
- What does a $3B battery factory look like? Ford’s Michigan mega-project is taking shape – mlive.com
- Immigrants Revived Rust Belt Cities. Now They’re in Hiding. – Wall Street Journal
- Mike Rogers’ crypto evolution – Punchbowl News
- Michigan attorney general investigating a company promoting ‘twin flame’ romance – AP News
- UM regents, execs get 24-hour security as threats, harassment persist – Detroit News
- Former Navy SEAL, Nuclear Code-Carrier Enters Primary To Challenge Barrett In CD-7 – MIRS Blog
- 7th District congressional candidate Bridget Brink raises more than $500,000 in less than 2 weeks – Brink Campaign
- Michigan petition summer: What to know about voting, tax, wage proposals before you sign – Bridge Michigan
The Billionaires Tax Reduction Act (a.k.a. Trump’s “Beautiful” budget bill)
- Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill – New York Times
- Buy Now, Pain Later – Susan J. Demas/Lincoln Square
- The Ugliness of the ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill, in Charts – Steve Rattner/The New York Times
- The Cult of the Big Beautiful Bill – Rick Wilson/Lincoln Square
- 7 things everyone should know about Trump’s megabill – Judd Legum/Popular Information Substack
- Republicans are cutting Medicare. Not only Medicaid, Medicare. – American Prospect
- Opinion | What’s in Trump’s budget bill? Here are six obscure features. – The Washington Post
- Donald Trump Makes Glaring Error as He Touts His Megabill in Victory Speech – Daily Beast
- Fact focus: Trump misrepresents facts about coal – NBC Chicago
- Congress Passes National Private School Voucher Program as Part of Policy Bill – The New York Times
- Solar Industry Says Republican Policy Bill Would Cede Production to China – The New York Times
- The Oligarchs’ Big Prize in Trump’s Budget-Busting Bill – The New Republic
Trump-World Grift, Lies and Corruption
- Trump’s New Fragrance Doesn’t Smell Like Success – WIRED
- Trump Golf Track
- VIDEO: How Trump Extorts the Mainstream Media – Mark Jacob & Susan J. Demas via Lincoln Square
- America declared independence from the crown 249 years ago — today it has a would-be king – MSNBC
- Here are the Declaration of Independence’s Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump. – Mother Jones
- Trump’s Finances Were Shaky. Then He Began to Capitalize on His Comeback. – The New York Times
- Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App.
Lawyers Say That’s Unconstitutional – WIRED - Trump Kicks Off Celebration of America by Declaring His Hatred for Democrats – Daily Beast
- Free Speech? E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump – The New York Times
- Trump administration sued for allegedly targeting brown-skinned people in Southern California – AP News
- Groups sue to stop Trump administration from using what they call unconstitutional tactics in raids – Detroit News
- Paramount Surrenders to Trump and Agrees to Pay Him Millions – The New Republic
- New U.S. jobs report shows 2025 is off to a discouragingly sluggish start – Maddow Blog
- The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973 – The New York Times
- Justice Department Announces Chilling Plan to Revoke Citizenship – The New Republic
