Author: DailyWestern

Millions would lose Medicaid coverage. Millions would be left without health insurance. Signing up for health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces would be harder and more expensive. President Donald Trump’s domestic policy legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that cleared the House in May and now moves to the Senate, could also be called Obamacare Repeal Lite, its critics say. In addition to causing millions of Americans to lose their coverage under Medicaid, the health program for low-income and disabled people, the measure includes the most substantial rollback of the ACA since Trump’s Republican allies tried to…

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Few Democratic lawmakers have been as publicly vocal in their criticism of the Trump administration’s first six months as Ro Khanna. The congressman representing California’s 17th District—which includes much of Silicon Valley, including tech giants Apple and Nvidia—has been hosting town halls with voters in Republican districts and rallies around the country at a cadence that has already started fueling speculation of a 2028 presidential run.  He’s also publicly feuded with former Silicon Valley darling and his onetime friend Elon Musk, who aligned himself closely with U.S. President Donald Trump for much of the last two years and recently left…

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