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Donald Trump | Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The real cost of Trump’s tariff checks

Chauncey DeVega
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Social misery in the Age of Trump

Chauncey DeVega
A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City, United States. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

MAGA salivates at cutting food stamps

Sophia Tesfaye
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GOP health care cuts hurt kids like mine

Joel Edward Goza
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference on the government shutdown on Oct. 8, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Dems winning on health care in shutdown

Heather Digby Parton
Vice President JD Vance looks on as President Donald Trump speaks to the media in the Oval Office, Sept. 2, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

GOP's BBB rebrand may be in trouble

Russell Payne
Supporters attend a primary election night event for J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, at Duke Energy Convention Center on May 3, 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

MAGA supports Trump, even when it hurts

Alexander Hinton - The Conversation
President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Americans believe Trump is hurting them

Garrett Owen
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Elon Musk arrives for US President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Bessent bashes Musk's America Party

Alex Galbraith
A power generating windmill towers above a nuclear power plant operated by Exelon on June 14, 2018 near Marseilles, Illinois (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Clean energy faces "existential risk"

Garrett Owen
US President Donald Trump holds a tariff table as he speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 24, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump 2.0 falls apart overnight

Brian Karem
President Donald J. Trump speaks while Small Business Administration Linda McMahon listens on during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

When facts become seditious

Brian Karem
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