The Trump administration has decided to shift federal money away from helping the economically worst off among us – the newly immigrated, the unhoused and the hungry. More and more, if falls to all of us to prevent the least fortunate from experiencing the worst ravages of poverty.

With Trump’s health care cuts, I traveled to Ohio, Mississippi and Alabama — and encountered devastated families bracing for even more difficult challenges.

Local anti-poverty groups have had to scramble and scale back this year as the Trump administration targeted safety-net programs. They are bracing for what may come next.

From taxes to tariffs to immigration, Donald Trump's sweeping policies are altering the fabric of American life.

From tariffs, to health care cuts, and slashed benefit budgets, the White House and its Congressional allies made life considerably more difficult for families of all stripes.

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Rep. Daniel Perez, R-Miami, was formally designated Monday to become the next House speaker. House Speaker Daniel Perez on Tuesday rolled out a far-reaching proposal to cut Medicaid and a low-cost state children’s health insurance program while ...

An Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on protecting the grid. Democrats pointed to the president. A panel of expert witnesses at a House Energy and Commerce hearing unanimously warned that the Trump administration’s cuts to grid ...

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President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it’s planning to tighten rules for federal child care funds after a series of alleged fraud schemes at Minnesota day care