Donald Trump
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Trump’s plan to gut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires ‘would be devastating for Nevadans,’ senator warns
Nevada Democratic US Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said a Republican plan to cut taxes on the rich can only be offset by about $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. Nevada Democratic US Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on Monday renewed a warning that a tax cut proposal endorsed by President Donald Trump would require lawmakers to…
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Trump administration investigating UNLV over diversity efforts
UNLV is the only Nevada institution under investigation, but several universities in neighboring states were also included in the probe. Nevada’s largest public university is under investigation by the Trump administration for its efforts to bolster diversity among Ph.D students, the US Department of Education announced Friday. The department announced it had opened investigations into…
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Nevada officials, veterans worry VA cuts could impact access to healthcare and other benefits
VA branches that cover Nevada, which is home to more than 200,000 veterans, employ a combined roughly 4,800 full-time employees and complete more than one million healthcare visits each year — leaving some worried that any cuts to the agency will impact their wellbeing. Amid recently announced plans to eliminate roughly 82,000 jobs at the…
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Discurso de Donald Trump en el Congreso: chequeo en español y resumen de falsedades, afirmaciones sin contexto y verdades
El presidente Donald Trump divulgó varias desinformaciones en su discurso ante el Congreso. El mandatario dio cifras erróneas sobre el autismo e indicó falsamente que México y Canadá han permitido que el fentanilo ingrese a EE. UU. “en niveles nunca antes vistos”.
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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
“What’s going to happen is VA’s not going to perform as well for veterans, and veterans are going to get harmed,” said Michael Missal, who was the VA’s inspector general for nine years until he was fired last month by Donald Trump.
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Nevada Democrats bring guests who’ll be impacted by Trump’s funding cuts to Congressional address
Nevada Democrats and others from across the US are using Tuesday night’s event to highlight the negative real-world impacts of the Trump administration’s first six weeks in office. Growing up with a number of serious health conditions, Las Vegas teen Dominic Rampa has always defied the odds. Rampa endured a challenging birth that his mother…
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What Trump’s order making English the official language in the US could mean
As President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, activists and advocacy groups are alarmed by what that will mean for non-English speakers when it comes to immigration, voter access and other issues.
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More than a dozen NPS workers fired from Lake Mead as part of mass federal workforce purge
The positions eliminated include park rangers, engineers, ecologists, maintenance workers, and cultural resource staff for the ninth most-visited area managed by the National Park Service. By Jennifer Solis, Nevada Current More than a dozen federal workers at Lake Mead National Recreation Area were among those fired last week as part of the Trump administration’s move…
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Nevada part of multistate lawsuit seeking injunction against Elon Musk
Plaintiffs say Trump needed Congressional authorization to create the agency now known as DOGE, and that Musk needed to be confirmed by the US Senate. Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford is helping lead a multi-state federal lawsuit filed Thursday against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, arguing that Trump violated the US Constitution by creating…
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Nevadans are fighting back against Elon Musk’s quest to cut key government programs
From Las Vegas to Carson City, Nevada residents and officials are trying to reign in the powers of Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire with several conflicts of interest who seemingly has access to Americans’ most sensitive private data. As billionaire Elon Musk continues to rifle through dozens of federal agencies to slash “wasteful” government spending…
