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What Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Is Really Doing (Part 2) | The Ezra Klein Show

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Rather than honestly and straight-forwardly cutting Medicaid, the Republican bill adds thick layers of paperwork and bureaucratic hassles onto a bureaucracy that they purposely underfund and understaff to effectively cut Medicaid, taking away health insurance for many low income people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIB-8dvkL8I

A New Survey Suggests Illicit Opioid Use Is Much More Common Than the Government’s Numbers Indicate

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“A new survey of American adults suggests that illicit opioid use in the United States is much more common than the government’s numbers indicate. In the survey, conducted via the online platform Respondi in June 2024, 7.5 percent of respondents reported they had used (or might have used) illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) in the previous 12 months, 25 times the rate suggested by the government-sponsored National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).”

https://reason.com/2025/05/09/a-new-survey-suggests-illicit-opioid-use-is-much-more-common-than-the-governments-numbers-indicate/

Government Argues It’s Too Much To Ask the FBI To Check the Address Before Blowing Up a Home

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“That the government indeed thinks it is asking too much to do basic due diligence here—a.k.a., requiring agents to ensure they are in the right place before detonating an explosive inside a home and ripping the door from its hinges—epitomizes the state’s general allergy to accountability. More dire is that the argument has worked.”

https://reason.com/2025/05/09/government-argues-its-too-much-to-ask-the-fbi-to-check-the-address-before-blowing-up-a-home/

Is the Era of Student Loan Forgiveness Officially Over?

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Trump administration is forcing students to start paying their loans again. The systems in place to help people who can’t afford it are broken due to DOGE cuts. The lack of staff also makes it difficult to fix a mistake, like when people receive a loan bill higher than it should be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJV7mswlKE