The Republicans One Big Beautiful Bill signed into law Friday provides tax breaks and increases funding for several GOP priorities. To pay for all of that, the budget bill reduces spending by one-point-one trillion dollars over the next ten years for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Louisiana Democratic Party Executive Director Dadrius Lanus spoke at the Baton Rouge Press Club…
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House Speaker Mike Johnson said on the Moon Griffon Show there are no cuts to Medicaid in the budget bill. Johnson says the legislation instead strengthens the program by eliminating fraud and abuse. He says one-point-four million undocumented migrants will no longer receive Medicaid and there are four-point-eight million able bodied workers gaining the system…
Cut 10 (08) “…desperately need it”
The death toll has surpassed 100 from the catastrophic flooding that took place in Kerr County Texas. Many campers at Camp Mystic, a century-old all-girls Christian summer camp lost their lives. But Alexandria’s Emma Foltz, a student at Louisiana Tech is credited with helping 14 campers to safety. La Tech President Jim Henderson is super proud of Foltz…
Cut 6 (07) “….adversity strikes”
Ascension Public Schools retained the top spot in Louisiana for the percentage of students in grades 3 through 12 achieving mastery or advanced levels on the 2024-25 LEAP state tests, with 53-percent meeting those benchmarks. Superintendent Edith Walker….