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At a topline glance, Trump's Big Budget Bill is an outrage:
large tax cuts for the rich and millions kicked off health insurance,
almost a parody of what an apparently fragile coalition of contemporary conservatives might abide
(if also a bill that raised the eyebrows of a few debt scolds, including Musk).
But because it is also a one-stop legislative omnibus,
rushed so quickly through the House that Republican representatives are now protesting they didn…

Opinion | Trump’s Budget Tells Three Unhappy Truths About America
Features of the budget: A supercharged ICE, school vouchers and no relief for a warming planet.

The National Park Service is the most popular government agency,
with just 7 percent of polled Americans rating it as unfavorable.
And the people want it funded:
Just 17 percent of polled U.S. residents support reducing funding for the National Park Service and other agencies that manage federal lands.
Yet none of this has deterred Donald Trump and congressional Republicans from seeking to devastate the National Park Service.
Trump’s proposed FY 2026 budget would …

The US Public Loves the National Park Service. Trump Is Destroying It Anyway.
Trump is pushing for cuts that could require 350 of the 433 sites run by the National Park Service to shut down.

The Russification of America
How the 2025 Budget Shattered the Last Illusions of Democracy https://medium.com/@spqesq/the-russification-of-america-2beef3b63be7

She served the American people for 35 years. Now her retirement income is on the line (Andrea Hsu/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5430869/trump-congress-budget-bill-retirement-fers
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p11#a250612p11

Trump Hides $40 Million for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Deep In House Budget Bill, Includes Oversized Christopher Columbus Statue That May Sit on Sacred Native American Land
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/09/trump-hides-40-million-for-garden-of-heroes-deep-in-house-budget-bill-includes-oversized-christopher-columbus-statue-that-may-sit-on-sacred-native-american-land/

Canada-based Clio, which makes cloud tools for law firms, agrees to acquire vLex, which offers a legal and regulatory database and an AI assistant, for $1B (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/clio-to-acquire-american-legaltech-vlex-for-1-billion…

Clio to acquire American legaltech vLex for $1 billion USD
vLex offers an extensive legal and regulatory database alongside an AI-powered assistant.

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third,
An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.
https://…

Lawmakers Say Trump’s Budget Would Put Native American Health Care at Risk - Oklahoma Watch
https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/06/07/lawmakers-say-trumps-budget-would-put-native-american-health-care-at-risk/

The gargantuan budget bill Republicans passed through Congress will do its part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, the bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth — perhaps the largest in history — taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich. And in its details there are dozens

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.

Trump and Republicans in Congress will do their part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, their Big Bad Budget bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth
— perhaps the largest in history
— taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich.
And in its details there are dozens if not hundreds of blows to the economy.

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.