$ 150 billion to release immigrants? Here are 4 other ideas.

What else could the government pay with the $ 150 billion that just stopped for mass expulsion?

We are not financially publication – so Rewire News Group The director of the editorial Catesby Holmes invited a number of numbers to make mathematics. And, as it turns out, $ 150 billion could fund a lot of health care, from the reopening of each rural hospital and their operation for 12 years to provide 40 million people with annual breast cancer screenings for a decade.

“The decisions of the government budget include inherently compromise,” said Graham Gardner healthcare economist in Holmes. “And interested citizens have to think about where our money is going and how it could potentially be used better.”

Reading CornerThe latest analysis of how the funding of mass deportation could pay for some of the country’s health care here.

Anti -democratic acts

• Trump on August 11 said he would take over the federal control of Washington, the DC police service and deploy 600 National Guard troops in the capital of the nation, citing the “out -of -control” crime. New York Times referenced. Data shows that the crime in DC hit 30 years low in 2024, According to the US Public Prosecutor’s Office for Columbia District.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the Federal Prosecutors to launch an investigation of the great jury for allegations that Obama’s administration officials invented information about Russia’s intervention in the 2016 elections, CNN reported on August 4.
• THE New York Times revealed on August 6 This President Donald Trump has considered private to intervene in the New York municipal race to stop democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who lost the Democratic Championship and is now running as an independent candidate, privately said business leaders that “personally, I do not want to fight [Trump]” In accordance with New York Times.
• Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) said that the Federal Investigation Office would help Texas Democratic Legislators who left Texas to prevent the vote for a controversial Congress Redistribution Map of 20 Texas Tribune referenced.

Wins democracy

• New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued the federal government to prevent investigation and overthrow the care confirmed by the sex. The lawsuit, filed with more than twelve other states and Washington, DC, accuses Trump’s administration of attempting a “backdoor strategy” to limit this care by ceasing state laws that protect patients with transgender, 19th referenced.
• THE Stanford everydayStanford University’s student newspaper, lawsuit with Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Home Security Minister Kristi Noem last week on alleged violations of freedom of speech, saying that the threats of deportation and recalcons have caused the recalmissions. NBC News reported.
• The Federal Emergency Management Service said on August 4 that it would not withhold grants from states and cities that boycott Israeli companies, In accordance with New York Times. The statement reverses a previous policy that prevented recipients of grants from “limiting trade relations specifically with Israeli companies”.

Reproductive rights

• The White House will not require health insurance companies to cover in Vitro (IVF) fertilization, Washington Post referenced. This breaks with the Trump campaign campaign in 2024 to undertake the IVF coverage or the government pay for the process. A unique IVF cycle can cost between $ 15,000 and $ 30,000.
• A proposed Trump administration rule would prevent pregnant veterans from taking care of abortions in cases Washington Post referenced. The proposal, submitted on August 4, seeks to recall a Biden era policy that extended access to abortion for veterans and their qualifying beneficiaries even to states with abortions.
• The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office has hit medical groups for their abortion records as part of a lawsuit for exceptions from the ban on state abortion, Guardian referenced.

Lgbtq+ rights

• The Air Force said it would not give members of the Transgender service with 15-18 years of service the option to retire early, which means they will lose their retirement benefits. According to Associated Press. Members of the Trans service should choose between “either to receive a flat -rate separation payment offered to the lower troops or to be removed from the service,” the AP said.
• US representatives in the United Nations oppose the use of the word “gender” in United Nations documents and pushing the Trump administration’s anti-trans agenda worldwide, Propublica referenced.
• New Hampshire became the first state in New England to prohibit the care of minors for minors last week, after Commander Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, signed two laws in the law, According to New Humsire’s public radio.
• The Ministry of Internal Affairs moved to prevent transsexual athletes from gaining “emergency” visas that would allow them to compete in women’s sports, HuffPost referenced. Politics are aiming for a small group of people – about 5 % of college athletes are international students and the president of the National Collective Athletic Union (NCAA) told the Senate last year that he knew only about ten athletes competing at college level, according to HuffPost.

Migration

• A federal judge has temporarily stopped construction at the controversial immigration detention center in Florida Everglades, while hearing challenges caused by environmental groups, NPR reported. These groups say construction will harm the quality of Everglades water and endanger the Legal Protected Panther of Florida.
• Immigrants without legal status who have applied for a green card or permanent residence through spouse of citizens or family member can now be subjected to expulsion. Depending on how the new policy is enforced, it could signal “a change in the sea to the imposition of immigration and will prevent people who must be eligible to adapt to legal permanent status from doing so” Professor of Migration Law told NBC News.
• US inventory can soon block migration without papers, New York Times reported on August 7. Changes ordered by Trump to the census, scheduled for 2030, could rebuild federal funding and Congress seats in ways that favor Republicans, according to Times. A federal court prevented Trump’s previous attempt to change the way in which the inventory collects population data in 2020. Then, the Supreme Court refused to decide on the advantages of change; This time, judges could come up with a case for Trump’s latest census.
• Rwanda will last up to 250 deported immigrants from the United States as a part of an agreement that hit Trump’s administration, NBC News reported On August 5 it is not clear what, if anything, Rwanda will receive for the acceptance of the exposed immigrant, According to Associated Press. The deal, allegedly reduced in June, comes amid Trump’s unprecedented attempt to deport a million people from the US annually. The US has already deported immigrants to South Sudan, Eswatini, El Salvador and other countries.

Health and science

• Minister of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on August 5 that the Agency terminates more than $ 500 million in MRNA vaccine projects, NPR reported. Initiatives for the development of additional flu vaccines COVID-19 and H5N1 were among them cut. The announcement has followed new research suggesting that H5N1 can spread through air to dairy farms, In accordance with New York Times.
• Trump’s administration delayed imposing a limit on Medicare’s returns for bandages after a $ 5 million donation on a Trump Super PAC from a biotechnology company that stood to lose money if the regulation entered into force, New York Times Reported last week. The policy of the Biden era, introduced in April 2024, will limit the Medicare of skin -like skin -like skin on a list of 17 products that said it had shown effectiveness. Absence from this directory was the biotechnology he donates to the Super Pac associated with Trump.

Dei and civil rights

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• The podcast explosion! Lawyered returns for a quick summer session as the Supreme Court is being promoted for his next term. This week, Imani and Jess led a conversation with Elizabeth Super, a law professor at the University of Texas in Austin, on how Scotus blurs the line between the Church and the State. You can hear the episode here or – and that’s some broken news here – you can now Watch b! L on youtube.

Unwind

• Wednesday It’s back! The first part of the second season of the Addams family show just fell on Netflix and we can’t wait to see what our favorite little macabre Weirdo is doing.
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