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Trump-Musk Attack on Social Security Could Disrupt Benefit Checks to Nation’s Most Vulnerable

Interview with Justin Glawe, independent journalist and editor of the American Doom newsletter, conducted by Scott Harris

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Public Citizen Pushing Back Against Trump Regime’s Onslaught of Lawlessness

Interview with Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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Trump Suppression of Free Speech an Unconstitutional Pretext to Deport Palestinian Student Activist

Interview with Sam Carliner, a journalist and editor at Left Voice, conducted by Scott Harris

This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – March 19, 2025

Compiled by Bob Nixon

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  • Executives at White House Crypto Summit gave $11M to Trump inaugural
  • New secretary of Veterans Affairs cancels 875 vital services contracts

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"If we weren’t living in and seeing the other things that the Trump administration and the unelected monarch Elon Musk are doing, (it) wouldn’t be believable that this is what they’re proposing, but it’s what they’re proposing. It’s $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid.

"It’s basically an elimination of food assistance — SNAP —providing meals for seniors, for example, people with disabilities.

"Medicaid primarily serves seniors, children, people with disability and besides that, the majority of people work and are on Medicaid. It provides health care. That’s all it provides. You can’t live on Medicaid alone. It just provides health care. So if you take it away from people, they get sick and they die. That’s what’s being proposed." - Alex Lawson, Social Security Works
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Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Trump-GOP Plan to Slash $880 Billion from Medicaid Healthcare
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Stand up for Democracy at Tesla in Milford CT

DATE: Saturday, March 22 10am – 12pm EDT
LOCATION: 881 Boston Post Rd, Milford, CT 06460

https://www.mobilize.us/eldoradoprogressives/event/763661/
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Public Citizen Pushing Back Against Trump Regime’s Onslaught of Lawlessness: Interview with Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, conducted by Melinda Tuhus. Listen Here: https://btlonline.org/public-citizen-pushing-back-against-trump-regimes-onslaught-of-lawlessness/
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Trump-Musk Attack on Social Security Could Disrupt Benefit Checks to Nation’s Most Vulnerable: Interview with independent journalist Justin Glawe, editor of the American Doom newsletter & regular contributor to Rolling Stone magazine, conducted by Scott Harris. Listen Here: https://btlonline.org/trump-musk-attack-on-social-security-could-disrupt-checks-to-nations-most-vulnerable/