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Conservatives Unite to End Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Providers
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Conservatives Unite to End Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Providers

By: Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | The Daily Signal FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The pro-life movement has determined its newest priority: preventing Planned Parenthood from receiving full funding again, starting July 4. “Next year, our nation will mark its 250th anniversary. A celebration of human dignity and the God-given rights proclaimed in our founding,” Live Action founder and president Lila Rose told The Daily Signal. “But we cannot celebrate freedom while subsidizing the killing of American children.” President Donald Trump’s “One, Big Beautiful Bill” instructed the federal government to end Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, that received more than $800,000,000 from Medicaid in 2023. But on July 4, America’...
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House delays key vote on Trump budget bill after conservative fury over spending cuts
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House delays key vote on Trump budget bill after conservative fury over spending cuts

By Elizabeth Elkind  | Fox News A key vote to advance a massive conservative policy bill has been delayed, putting House Republicans behind in their ambitious schedule to enact President Donald Trump's agenda. The House Budget Committee had initially aimed to go through and approve the legislation this week, but a source familiar with planning told Fox News Digital that is no longer the case. It comes after conservatives on the panel rejected multiple offers by House GOP leaders on where to set a baseline for cutting federal spending, urging senior Republicans to seek deeper cuts ahead of negotiations with the Senate. READ THE FULL STORY ON FOX NEWS
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Sloan: What’s next for Britain?
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Sloan: What’s next for Britain?

By Kelly Sloan | Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice Well, if anything, that was maybe even a bit worse than expected. There is no sugar-coating it, the Conservatives in Great Britain absorbed a catastrophic defeat last week in that country’s national elections.  It was a defeat of literally historic proportions – the worst showing for the British Conservative party in its history. The Tories lost 234 seats, coming away with a mere 131 in the 650-seat Parliament. As electoral rebukes go, that was a pretty clear one.  But the question lingers as to how much the results indicate a sea-change in British political alignment. Britian’s parliamentary, first-past-the-post system assigns winners, but it also does a remarkable job at concealing underlying trends.  An analytic...
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