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Protesters urge John Cornyn to vote no on Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
| June 27, 2025
About 50 protesters urged Sen. John Cornyn to oppose Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” warning it would harm healthcare and social services.
Houston NAACP backs move to bar Trump from convention
| June 24, 2025
Leaders of the Houston NAACP said they agreed with the NAACP’s decision to not invite President Donald Trump to its convention next month.
Texas Republicans help pass Trump budget bill cutting healthcare, food stamps
| May 22, 2025
Texas lawmakers played key roles in passing President Trump’s budget bill, which funds tax cuts for the wealthy by cutting Medicaid and food stamps.
Trump’s first 100 days brought chaos, cuts to Texas but inspired resistance
| April 28, 2025
From slashing funding for public health initiatives to closing a US Education Department office in Dallas, the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have left Texans in a state of wreckage.
Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to internal memo
| March 5, 2025
“What’s going to happen is VA’s not going to perform as well for veterans, and veterans are going to get harmed,” said Michael Missal, who was the VA's inspector general for nine years until he was fired last month by Donald Trump.
Trump orders tariffs on Mexico and Canada — Texas’ biggest trading partners
| February 3, 2025
The tariffs, which also target China, are scheduled to go into effect Tuesday. They prompted immediate efforts to retaliate. President Donald Trump made good on his threat to apply high taxes to imports from Mexico, Canada and China, a move that swiftly brought retaliation from Texas’ leading trading partners and set the stage for a […]