Monday, July 28, 2025 - US healthcare cuts; Voting rights

Guest: David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect
Please donate to KPFK! Donald Trump's and Republicans' budget-busting OBBB law slashed $1 trillion from Medicaid, and on Oct. 1 triggers automatic cuts to Medicare, and spike the cost of premiums for Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) enrollees. Financial journalist DAVID DAYEN explains the potentially 'catastrophic' impacts that the cuts will have on the entire US healthcare sector and across the economy, and more. Federal judge blocks Republicans' attempts to defund Planned Parenthood. The US Supreme Court temporarily stayed a radical appeals court ruling gutting part of the Voting Rights Act.