No, Donald Trump didn’t just slash Medicaid

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July 14, 2025

No, Donald Trump didn’t just slash Medicaid

Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act is now law. Democrats have wasted no time accusing the GOP of enshrining devastating “cuts” to Medicaid, the joint federal-state entitlement that provides health coverage for low-income Americans. That’s rubbish. The measure takes steps to restrain Medicaid’s rampant growth in recent years so that the program prioritizes our nation’s […]

Natural resources at home are key to continued American prosperity

America is the Land of Opportunity because of the plentiful and unique natural resources from the East to the West Coast. Over the past nearly 250 years, our nation has relied on this bounty to sustain itself and our economy. But as we approach the United States’ semiquincentennial next summer, it’s clear that in recent […]

AI policy’s deadly energy supply delusion

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has both positive and negative consequences, many of which have yet to be fully understood. But the explosive growth in its use is indisputable. One critical domain of that growth is national defense. We are in an accelerating race with China, and the competition includes the three principal components […]

Our closest Afghan allies are in limbo

Nearly four years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, America’s Afghan allies remain in limbo due to a combination of bureaucratic dawdling under the Biden administration and rapid-fire changes in policy under President Donald Trump. Among the thousands of Afghans feeling the effects of changes stateside are those who entered the country via the CBP […]

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