Newsweek: Medicaid Update: Trump Pushes Republicans to Mandate Change

President Donald Trump is pushing to have the pharmaceutical industry help fund his tax cuts by requiring drugmakers to lower Medicaid drug prices, according to reporting by Bloomberg News.

Newsweek reached out to the White House by email on Friday afternoon for comment.

Trump targeted drug prices as part of his effort to bring down costs for Americans: He first signed an order that rescinded former President Joe Biden’s executive order that lowered the cost of prescription drugs, but last month signed a fresh order telling the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to take new steps to lower drug costs through competition and market forces rather than through presidential mandate.

So the bottom line is that thanks to King Donald’s meddling, we now have a net INCREASE in prescription costs to Medicaid patients.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/medicaid-update-trump-pushes-republicans-to-mandate-change/ar-AA1E42uD

Fox News: Harvard professor reveals university was ‘not ready’ after Oct 7 as Trump revokes tax-exempt status

An adjunct professor at Harvard spoke out Thursday after the Ivy League university’s president, Alan Garber, apologized as scathing internal reports exposed that antisemitism and Islamophobia were prevalent on campus. 

Eugene Litvak, who teaches at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that one of the nation’s top universities “was not ready” for the anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic behavior that has plagued Harvard since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

“Obviously, I was really, really upset,” Litvak told Fox. “What happened at Harvard after October 7th, and [at] the university, in my opinion, again, that’s my personal opinion, the university was not ready to face these kinds of challenges. None of the universities were ready.”

“I’m commending, actually, the letter from the president of the university,” the Harvard professor added. “What I really like, in science, we say that you cannot solve any problem unless you formulate it. So he formulated the problem in his letter. He acknowledged that there is a problem. Otherwise, nothing would happen.”

Harvard president Alan Garber apologized in a letter Tuesday after internal reports unveiled antisemitism and Islamophobia’s presence at the Ivy League school. Garber described the findings as “disturbing.”

“I think that’s a step in the absolutely right direction,” Litvak told Fox News Digital. “I would like to see the fruits of it. But again, I was very, very pleased because of the acknowledgment that there is such a problem.”

But:

Despite Garber’s apology and admission, President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social Friday stating that the administration will be “taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status,” noting “It’s what they deserve!” 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/harvard-professor-reveals-university-was-not-ready-after-oct-7-as-trump-revokes-tax-exempt-status/ar-AA1E6efu

Associated Press: May Day demonstrations in US and around the globe protest Trump agenda

Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and around the world rallied Thursday in May Day protests that united many in anger over President Donald Trump’s agenda from aggressive tariffs that are stoking fears of global economic turmoil to his administration’s immigration crackdowns.

In the United States, organizers framed this year’s International Workers’ Day protests as a pushback against what they see as the administration’s sweeping assault on labor protections, diversity initiatives and federal employees. Protesters lined streets in many cities from New York to Philadelphia to Los Angeles and held a boisterous rally outside the White House in Washington.

https://apnews.com/article/may-day-workers-labor-unions-rallies-marches-trump-46de8196d7f01d7458c3d77ccd5e0e54

Alternet: ‘Cruelty’: Johnson buried for using ‘classist stereotype’ to justify GOP’s Medicaid cuts

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson sets new low records for ignorance and condescension in his analysis of the top source of Medicaid fraud:

Johnson blamed what he suggested is a large number of male gamers on Medicaid for “draining resources.”

“So if you clean that up and shore it up, you save a lot of money, and you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day,” he again declared.

40% of Speaker Johnson’s constituents rely on Medicaid for their health insurances. That’s an awful lot of male gamers draining resources by playing video games all day instead of being out working.

More likely Speaker Johnson, like so many of King Donald’s sycophants, is simply out of touch with reality and needs to move on after his clock is cleaned in the 2026 mid-terms.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/cruelty-johnson-buried-for-using-classist-stereotype-to-justify-gop-s-medicaid-cuts/ar-AA1CH1rv

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launch a progressive airstrike on Trump’s billionaire-backed demolition of democracy

https://www.facebook.com/FearAndLoathingCloserToTheEdge/posts/639846732017966

https://www.facebook.com/VietVetsforDems/posts/1714510345934210