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Pay-to-play cycle behind GOP's corporate tax cuts exposed in new report

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Pay-to-play cycle behind GOP's corporate tax cuts exposed in new report

Major American corporations that benefited from tax cuts enacted last year by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are donating to the campaigns of GOP lawmakers who made the windfall possible.A report published Friday by Unrig Our Economy spotlights seven House Republicans who voted for the sprawling and unpopular GOP budget package, which extended tax breaks for corporations and wealthy Americans while inflicting unprecedented cuts on Medicaid and federal nutrition assistance—with disastrous consequences for millions of low-income families across the country.Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), one of the lawmakers featured in the new report, has received campaign donations from corporate PACs representing 3M, Amazon, Walmart, AT&T, and other companies that collectively received billions of dollars in tax breaks from the Republican law, which restored a provision allowing businesses to immediately write off new investments.Amazon saw its US income taxes fall by more than half last year due to the GOP law, even as the company’s profits grew. Unrig Our Economy noted that Amazon, whose PAC donated thousands to the Republicans spotlighted in the new report, has an effective federal tax rate of 1.37% following enactment of the budget law.Miller-Meeks, who has received at least $57,000 in donations from the PACs of companies that benefited from the 2025 law, issued a statement Thursday bragging about supporting “the largest tax cuts in American history,” not mentioning that the benefits will disproportionately flow to profitable corporations and the richest people in the country.“Thanks to the Republican tax law, corporations are receiving tax breaks, House Republicans are getting campaign cash, and working families are getting stuck with the bill,” the report states.Another Republican lawmaker featured in the report, Rob Bresnahan of Pennsylvania, received $2,500 in campaign donations from the PAC of FirstEnergy, which reaped $500 million in depreciation deductions thanks to the GOP tax law.“Bresnahan voted to give FirstEnergy hundreds of millions in tax breaks even after the company raised utility prices for his constituents,” Unrig Our Economy’s report observes.The report also points out that Bresnahan “owned stock in every single one” of the companies who contributed PAC money to his campaign following passage of the Republican budget package last summer.“This comes after Bresnahan has already faced scrutiny for dumping stock in Medicaid providers and selling off bonds in Pennsylvania hospitals before voting to slash Medicaid and put rural hospitals at risk,” the report notes.Leor Tal, Unrig Our Economy’s campaign director, said in a statement that “one year ago, House Republicans ripped away healthcare and food assistance from millions of Americans, so that corporations could get massive tax breaks.”“Now, many of those companies are dishing out PAC money to the Republicans listed in this report,” said Tal. “Republicans in Congress sold out many of their own constituents to help corporations get even richer. It’s time that House Republicans step up, do the right thing, and start fighting for working Americans—not giant corporations.”

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Trump Accounts Are the President’s Latest Legacy Play

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Trump Accounts Are the President’s Latest Legacy Play

The president is aiming for generational impact with the launch of new fund for kids

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Donald Trump is the accidental hero of a real-life feelgood climate tale even as a creeping horror story plays alongside | Clear Air

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Donald Trump is the accidental hero of a real-life feelgood climate tale even as a creeping horror story plays alongside | Clear Air

Despite a deadly heatwave sweeping through Europe, the US president’s ineptness has created reason for optimism on the climate crisisSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereTwo real-life climate-themed movies are playing in parallel across the globe. They are about the world today, but they are also a snapshot of the future. The first is a slow-building horror story; the second, a feelgood summer hit. Both are worth watching.Horror films are suddenly box-office gold, so let’s start there. The World Health Organisation says the extreme, record-breaking heatwave blanketing Europe has killed more than 1,300 people. But everyone knows that number will end up a dramatic understatement. Continue reading...

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Where to play and party like it’s 1776 this weekend

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Where to play and party like it’s 1776 this weekend

Here, the best events in and near NYC to celebrate Independence Day.

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JUST IN: Trump Responds to Blockbuster Ruling on “Trans” Boys Playing in Girls’ Sports – “That Takes That Ridiculous Situation Off the Table!!!”

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JUST IN: Trump Responds to Blockbuster Ruling on “Trans” Boys Playing in Girls’ Sports – “That Takes That Ridiculous Situation Off the Table!!!”

President Trump responded to the Supreme Court's Tuesday ruling allowing states to block biological boys from competing in girls' scholastic sports. Trump described it as a "BIG WIN," adding, "That takes that ridiculous situation off the table!!!" In a statement on Truth Social, Trump wrote, "BIG WIN: The United States Supreme Court just RULED AGAINST MEN PLAYING IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. The post JUST IN: Trump Responds to Blockbuster Ruling on “Trans” Boys Playing in Girls’ Sports – “That Takes That Ridiculous Situation Off the Table!!!” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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SCOTUS sides with common sense after boys try to play sports with girls

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SCOTUS sides with common sense after boys try to play sports with girls

The Supreme Court has come down on the side of common sense when it comes to boys infiltrating girls' sports.In a decision in which all nine justices concurred at least in part, the court ruled that laws in West Virginia and Idaho could limit sports teams to biological sex without violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.'The challenged laws do not classify based on gender identity or transgender status ... but instead on the basis of biological sex.'"The argument that the challenged laws unconstitutionally discriminate against transgender individuals is unavailing. Under this Court’s decision in Skrmetti, the challenged laws do not classify based on gender identity or transgender status, see 605 U. S., at 517, but instead on the basis of biological sex," Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in an opinion released Tuesday in which six total justices concurred on the core issues."The classification at issue readily satisfies rational basis review or intermediate scrutiny."Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito wrote separate concurring opinions. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a separate opinion, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, that concurred in part and dissented in part.Jackson also wrote a separate opinion that concurred in part and dissented in part.In his opinion, Thomas went further and affirmed that so-called transgender identity does not affect biological reality:Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary; and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne, Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to obscure reality — to show “indifference regarding the truth” — is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens “as equal[s].” This is a breaking story.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Supreme Court refuses to hear Trump’s E. Jean Carroll verdict appeal, but he has one more card to play

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Supreme Court refuses to hear Trump’s E. Jean Carroll verdict appeal, but he has one more card to play

The Supreme Court is refusing to hear President Donald Trump’s E. Jean Carroll verdict appeal. On Monday, the court rejected the chance to overturn a verdict that […]

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England’s stars help flip World Cup narrative in win over Panama to close group play

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England’s stars help flip World Cup narrative in win over Panama to close group play

Maybe that will calm some of the nerves of England’s jittery fanbase, hoping to see the Three Lions win a World Cup for the first time in 60 years.

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