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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Curtis Hertel
House GOP leads a do-nothing session
✹ State Senator Kevin Hertel
Chair, Senate Health Policy Committee
In the News
The real cover-up is of Trump’s disordered mental state
Stephen Robinson/Public Notice
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Senate Health Policy Dedicates Nearly 2 Hours To Medicaid Hearing – MIRS Blog
- VIDEO: Senate Health Policy Committee Medicaid Hearing – YouTube
- Tell Barrett to reverse his vote to defund Planned Parenthood and gut Medicaid – Lansing City Pulse
- GOP tax bill could force Michigan to reduce food assistance – Detroit News
- Attorney General: Attorney General Nessel Intervenes in Consumers Energy’s $436 Million Rate Hike Request – Attorney General
- ‘No one will know’: Records reveal secret money flowing through Lansing – Detroit News
- Republicans Moving Out Of Secchia-Weiser Building – MIRS Blog
- New Michigan bill would adopt definition of antisemitism in state law – Detroit Free Press
- Slotkin says she’s developing ‘alternative vision’ to offer country – Detroit News
- Democrats need to stop acting like they’re holding a losing hand – MSNBC
- Benson Campaign Statement on the GOP’s Desperate Attacks Against Jocelyn Benson – Benson for Governor campaign
- OpinionL Will Michigan say yes to Constitutional Convention in 2026? – John Lindstrom/Detroit Free Press
Attacks on the Constitution
- Supreme Court Allows DOGE Access to Social Security Data – Wall Street Journal
- Trump orders investigation into Biden’s actions as president – AP News
- Trump Officials Leave Out One Key Detail on Colorado Attack Suspect – The New Republic
- Republican push for proof of citizenship to vote proves a tough sell – AP News
- Texas bill gives university boards power to reshape curriculum – AP News
Trump-World Corruption
- Casey Means, Trump’s surgeon general pick, profits from wellness sales – AP News
- Mar-a-Lago Bump: Feds Pay $13 Million in Rent to Trump Neighbors – Bloomberg News
- Some of Trump’s Biggest Inaugural Donors Benefit From Early Government Actions – Wall Street Journal
- Trump’s Takeover Wrecks Kennedy Center as Subscriptions Plummet – The New Republic
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” a.k.a. “Goodies for Billionaires”
- US growth likely to slow to 1.6% this year, hobbled by Trump’s trade wars, OECD says – AP News
- Trump bill will add $2.4T to deficit and leave 10.9M more uninsured, CBO says – AP News
- KFF Health Tracking Poll: The Public’s Views of Funding Reductions to Medicaid – Kaiser Family Foundation
- Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come – AP News
- Shhh. Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare again. Sort of. – The Washington Post
- Trump administration shutters Job Corps: What it means for Michigan – Bridge Michigan
- Trump Is Going to Raise Your Insurance Premiums – The New Republic
- The war on poor kids – by Judd Legum – Popular Information
- Records of dead people show how the pro-Trump spin machine keeps going – The Washington Post
Trump’s Cabinet of Incompetents
- Despite talk of ‘meritocracy,’ a Team of Amateurs holds sway on Team Trump – Maddow Blog
- DOGE Is on a Recruiting Spree – WIRED
- Thomas Fugate: Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant as Terror Prevention Chief – Daily Beast
- Pete Hegseth orders Harvey Milk’s name scrubbed from US Navy ship – AP News
- Trump administration revokes guidance to hospitals on emergency abortions – AP News
- Trump’s Education Secretary Schooled in Reading and Math by Senators – Daily Beast
The Nation
- CNN Poll – Late May1995 – Role of government in solving problems.
- Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days – The Washington Post
- These are the safest states for gay and trans people – USA Today
- Republicans Trying to Control Indiana University Meet Little Resistance – The New York Times
- Court fight, 2026 ballot issue loom over Missouri abortion access – Springfield News-Leader
