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Trump making very clear that he intends his moves in Los Angeles to be the first in a series of efforts into big cities:

Rather than softening the Medicaid cuts in Republican's megabill, the Senate has made them even more aggressive: nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/…

Trump wants to punish Harvard by cutting off federal grants but the result is cutting research into cancer, mental health, opioid addiction, sleep deprivation and hundreds of other projects that benefit Americans. Emily Badger Aatish Bhatia Ethan Singer nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Out: Cornhusker kickback In: Caribou carveout W/Margot Sanger-Katz nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/… via @NYTimes

Republicans are making statements like this because they’ve pursued a strategy that nominally doesn’t cut benefits. Rather, their bill will make benefits much harder to get, with the same result that millions will lose assistance: nytimes.com/2025/06/29/ups…

Since some drama about the "current policy baseline" is clearly headed our way this week, may I recommend this piece decoding that boring but consequential language using metaphors and illustrations? nytimes.com/interactive/20… Alicia Parlapiano

NEW: GOP tax bill includes largest cut to US safety net in decades, possibly ever  Medicaid faces ~18% cut; +10 million projected to lose insurance  SNAP faces ~20%; +2 million to lose food stamps  Clinton cut food stamps by ~14%. Reagan cut Medicaid by ~5% across 2 years

How the GOP bill finds its savings: piling more paperwork on the poor. w/ Margot Sanger-Katz nytimes.com/2025/06/29/ups…

Republicans want states to cut food aid errors. Their bill could do the opposite: nytimes.com/2025/07/02/ups…

Great story/charts from Lydia DePillis Christine Zhang on how health care ate the American economy. This pair of maps is especially striking.

Smart Margot Sanger-Katz + Alicia Parlapiano FAQ about the GOP megabill that's about to become law: nytimes.com/2025/07/03/ups…

The "DEI" science grants the Trump administration has canceled include some that support young scientists from rural and first-gen college backgrounds: nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/…

Important piece from the incredible Ana Swanson: TACOs aside, Trump has actually raised the average tariff rate quite significantly over the past 6 months. nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/…

"It was an exercise of power, not reason." Helpful Adam Liptak context on recent SCOTUS moves: nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/…

The Trump admin would like to put a 2-year time limit on federal housing assistance for the non-elderly or disabled. 70% of such households now in subsidized housing have already been there that long: apnews.com/article/hud-se…

As this AP story points out, private landlords who accept vouchers won't like this. For all the program's hassles and paperwork, its major upside for landlords is the stability of long-term reliably paying tenants.

Wild that the National Capital Planning Commission now sits at the center of Trump's campaign to pressure the Fed chair to lower interest rates: nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/…

I think too many people are over-estimating the role Trump has in making a deal to get the Commanders a new stadium in D.C. The land’s lease is held by D.C., the deal is before the D.C. Council, and federal law prohibits any federal funds being spent on a stadium.

New: A 50-year-old federal rule has stifled affordable housing. Congress may finally, at long last, do something about it vox.com/policy/420254/…

States know even more about you than the federal government does. The Trump administration is now trying to access that data, too: nytimes.com/2025/08/01/ups…