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Vogue
28-05-2025
- Business
- Vogue
Who Will BWho Is Most Affected by Trump's Big Beautiful Bill?
Last week, House Republicans passed H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, in a 215 to 214 vote that all but two GOP representatives supported. Beyond sending a chilling message about Democrats' chances of defeating, well, anything Trump wants to prioritize, the bill, one of the biggest pieces of legislation to come out of the second Trump administration, has far-reaching implications for many marginalized groups. Below, an explanation of who's most likely to be affected by the bill—and how. Single Parents Not-so-surprisingly, the party of so-called "family values" is using its latest piece of legislation to discriminate against single parents when it comes to SNAP, or food stamp, benefits. One of the bill's provisions states that parents of children ages 7 to 17 must now work 80 hours a month to receive SNAP benefits, but in households where parents are married, only one has to work. In other words, single parents with kids as young as 8 must work in order to receive food aid, while people who are married to a working adult don't have to. Trans Medicaid Recipients The Big Beautiful Bill has justified trans communities' long-held worries about the future of gender-affirming care in ths US, banning gender-affirming care from Medicaid for all ages. 'For 10 years I got my hormones from the low-income American program Medicaid. 95% of my friends still do. Every American trans woman of color I know of this morning, Americans face the biggest practical, not legal or theoretical, loss of bodily autonomy of my lifetime,' trans author Torrey Peters said of the bill's passage at the Sydney Writer's Festival last Friday. Immigrants in the US The bill provides $46.5 billion to revive construction of Trump's wall along the US-Mexico border; $4 billion to hire an additional 3,000 new Border Patrol agents and 5,000 new customs officers; and $2.1 billion for signing and retention bonuses. Trump's second term has already proven dangerous for non-citizens, what with the increased deportations and persecuation by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). People seeking abortions and/or other reproductive health care The Big Beautiful Bill makes good on Republicans' long-threatened plan to effectively defund Planned Parenthood, closing nearly 200 clinics (90% of them in states where abortion is still legal). …Elon Musk? The tech billionaire appears to be at something of a distance from Trump's inner orbit now that he's no longer running the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), telling CBS News recently: 'I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it, and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing…I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don't know if it can be both. My personal opinion.'
Boston Globe
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Leighton Meester takes the lead on ‘Good Cop/Bad Cop'
That ability to command attention — especially as the show otherwise did its best to center the likes of Blake Lively and Penn Badgley — is the mark of a truly compelling actor. And yet Meester hasn't enjoyed the same success as her 'Gossip Girl' castmates. Since the show's 2012 finale, Badgley stalked dozens of photogenic victims on Advertisement It defies logic that Meester hasn't had a similar breakout role given the fact — fact , I say! — that her 'Gossip Girl' performance was consistently its best. And while the millennial obsession with her marriage to a fellow teen drama star (Adam Brody, then of 'The O.C.' and now Netflix's 'Nobody Wants This') is understandable, it can also anchor her to a space she hasn't occupied in well over a decade. So whenever Meester does get a chance to show off what she can do, I'm tuning in. That's what brought me to ABC's 'Single Parents,' for example, which turned out to be a really Advertisement In the years since, she's hopscotched between genres, taking on the likes of a Netflix thriller ('The Weekend Away'), a recurring sitcom role ('How I Met Your Father'), and a holiday rom-com ('Ex-Mas'). This year, ahead of an upcoming turn on the Apple TV+ period drama 'The Buccaneers,' she's once again leading a CW show. On 'Good Cop/Bad Cop,' Meester's playing a jaded small town cop whose sheriff father (Clancy Brown) tasks her with working alongside her neurotic brother (Luke Cook). Time will tell if it gives Meester the room to show off the breadth of her underrated range and win over some new fans. Either way, I'll be there to find out.
