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Stories to Amplify — May 21, 2025

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🧨 Struggling Trump Economy

  • Target sales drop in 1st quarter and retailer warns they will slip for all of 2025, indicating consumer spending concerns (Associated Press).

📋 Trump’s Spending Bill: Tax Cuts For The Rich, Health Care And Food Snatched From Americans Who Need It

  • Wealthy gain, low-income people lose from GOP megabill, analysis finds as distributional impacts become clear (Politico).

  • GOP megabill to kick millions of people off health insurance, budget office estimates (Politico).

  • Trump urges Republicans to unite behind the most budget-busting legislation in modern U.S. history (Axios).

🏛️ Trump’s Mad King Power Grab

  • Official pushed to rewrite intelligence so it could not be ‘used against’ Trump, raising concerns about political manipulation of security information (New York Times).

  • Trump admin deports Asian immigrants to South Sudan in violation of court order (Politico).

🔥 Trump Is Making Us Less Safe

  • Trump’s FEMA risks “flying blind” into hurricane season, experts warn as agency faces organizational challenges (Axios).

  • While Trump overhauls FEMA, Mississippi tornado survivors await assistance, highlighting delays in disaster response (Associated Press).

  • GOP Senator begs for disaster aid as FEMA snubs another red state, showing bipartisan concerns about emergency management (Rolling Stone).

📊 Public Opinion

  • Trump’s approval rating ticks lower and economic concerns weigh heavily, new poll finds (Reuters).

  • A new national Marquette poll shows softening of Trump’s support among Republicans, indicating new political vulnerability (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).