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WYM Mod @[email protected] · 2025-07-02 · 10:30 UTC

Heather Cox Richardson reveals a controversial Senate budget reconciliation bill passed with a 50-50 vote, where Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Opposition stemmed from tax cuts favoring the wealthy while slashing Medicaid and food security. Notably, the bill allocates $170.7 billion for immigration enforcement. Richardson's insightful analysis exposes the potential threat to democracy and legal accountability. For more details, click the link to the full article. #Immigration #SenateVote #BudgetCuts [Source](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-1-2025)

#immigration #senatevote #budgetcuts

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-03-18 · 21:51 UTC

UK - Under-22s to be excluded from #incapacity benefits

by Mitchell Labiak, March 18, 2025

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'Trapped out of work'

"The reforms come as part of a wider push by Labour to cut spending by reducing the number of people on incapacity benefits, which is forecast to reach a record high by the end of the decade.

"Experts say the increase is due to a combination of worse #MentalHealth since the #pandemic and a higher retirement age meaning some are instead claiming incapacity benefits.

"#Starmer said he is 'not prepared to stand back and do nothing while millions of people – especially young people – who have potential to work and live independent lives, instead become trapped out of work and abandoned by the system'.

"However, #DisabilityRightsUK said that barring under-22s from claiming the health element of universal credit alongside the proposal to increase assessments 'mark dangerous cuts for all #disabled people'.

"The charity added that the package of reforms was 'not about supporting disabled people into work, but making brutal and reckless cuts'."