Trump’s Big, Beautiful Boost for Billionaires, Bombs and the Border Regime

Amy Hanauer, the Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy, joins the show to discuss the anti-worker measures of Trump’s reconciliation bill that just passed in the Senate. Republicans rammed through a bill that slashes food aid, healthcare, and basic support for the country’s poorest and working-class Americans, in order to hand $114 billion tax breaks to the richest 1 percent in a single year. Hanauer will discuss the implications of what is set to be the largest wealth transfer in US history. Manolo De Los Santos, the Executive Director of The People’s Forum, joins the show to discuss Trump’s latest executive order on Cuba, reinstating all sanctions Biden had lifted before leaving office. De Los Santos will discuss the economic warfare behind the June 30 executive order, which targets Cuban companies with alleged ties to the socialist country’s military. Kambale Musavuli, an analyst with the Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa, joins the show to discuss the June 27 peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda. The deal aims to put an end to the Rwanda-backed M23 violence that has killed and displaced hundreds of thousands. Musavuli will explain how Washington is using peace talks to secure Congo’s vast resources and spin it as a Nobel-worthy achievement. Jesse Franzblau, the Associate Director of Policy with the National Immigrant Justice Center, joins the show to discuss the dramatic expansion of the US deportation regime, as ICE raids surge and the Senate passes Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” channeling billions more into detention centers, deportations, and a massive ICE hiring spree. He will also break down the Supreme Court’s latest ruling stripping lower courts of the power to block presidential actions, a decision that hands Trump even greater authority to target immigrants, including US citizens.

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