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Remember when Trump said he couldn't get prisoners back from El Salvador??
The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the men who were deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison.
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The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the men who were deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison.
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The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the men who were deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison.
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Marshall
Trumps DOJ released 10 hours of footage outside Epsteins cell & there’s just a couple issues with it. 1. An entire minute was cut out from 11:58:58-12:00:00 and 2. Didn’t they say the guards were asleep? What do you think?
*I edited the video to fast forward in the middle to save you all some time.*
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*I edited the video to fast forward in the middle to save you all some time.*
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Trumps DOJ released 10 hours of footage outside Epsteins cell & there’s just a couple issues with it. 1. An entire minute was cut out from 11:58:58-12:00:00 and 2. Didn’t they say the guards were asleep? What do you think? *I edited the video to fast forward in the middle to save you all some...
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Polds4OSU
Marshall
Democrats haven't held a Texas statewide office in 30 years and Kerr County votes Republican by 50+ points. Republicans, at multiple levels, decided not to fund an early warning system.
President Obama's Executive Order 13690
President Obama's key action to mitigate flood zones was Executive Order 13690, signed on January 30, 2015.
The Federal Flood Risk Management Standard established by EO 13690 was later revoked during the Trump administration but subsequently reinstated by President Biden through an Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk.
It was rescinded by Donald Trump within hours of his assuming office on January 20, 2025.
President Obama's Executive Order 13690
President Obama's key action to mitigate flood zones was Executive Order 13690, signed on January 30, 2015.
The Federal Flood Risk Management Standard established by EO 13690 was later revoked during the Trump administration but subsequently reinstated by President Biden through an Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk.
It was rescinded by Donald Trump within hours of his assuming office on January 20, 2025.
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Marshall
We already have a shortage of Doctors in this country....this will help.
A big change to student loans in Trump's spending bill could make it harder to become a doctor or lawyer
- The bill eliminates the Grad PLUS student-loan program and caps borrowing for graduates and professional students.
- The caps could make it harder for some students to get their advanced degrees.
Trump signed his "big beautiful" tax and spending bill into law on July 4, codifying a slew of changes to the tax system, healthcare, and education. The law includes a major overhaul to the country's education system, particularly to the way students take out and pay off their student loans.
One specific student-loan change in the bill places new caps on the amount of loans students can borrow for graduate school, including medical and law school. Specifically, the bill eliminates the Grad PLUS loan program, which allowed graduate and professional students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance for their programs.
It also caps borrowing for graduate students at $20,500 a year and $100,000 over a lifetime and for professional students, like those in medical or law school, at $50,000 a year and $200,000 over a lifetime.
Those caps mean many students won't be able to borrow enough to cover the full price of graduate or professional school. The Association of American Medical Colleges found that the median cost for four years of public medical school was $286,454 for the class of 2024, with that amount rising to just over $390,000 at a private school.
The average total cost of law school in the latest school year, according to the Education Data Initiative, was just over $217,000.
"Eliminating or restricting these critical programs would undermine the future physician workforce and ultimately make it harder for patients in communities nationwide to get the care they need," AAMC's president and CEO, David Skorton, said in a statement.
Sara Partridge, associate director for higher education policy at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, told Business Insider that she expects these new caps to worsen doctor shortages and "shut off pathways to these important jobs for students from low income families."
The Health Resources and Services Administration — a federal agency that ensures healthcare access — said in a 2024 report that 75 million people currently live in a primary care health shortage area, and it projects a shortage of 187,130 full-time physicians in 2037.
Some students might also turn toward private student loans with higher interest rates, Partridge said.
"Private student loans often require a cosigner, so some students may not qualify, and they may have no options to fully finance and attend graduate school. So there is a possibility that for some students, this will be a barrier to accessing graduate school," Partridge said.
The parent PLUS program, which previously allowed parents to borrower up to the full cost of attendance, still exists, but the bill places a $65,000 lifetime cap on parents borrowing for their kids' educations.
Along with the borrowing caps, the spending bill also instituted significant changes to student-loan repayment. It eliminated existing income-driven repayment plans and replaced them with two new options. The first option is a standard repayment plan with a payment period ranging from 10 to 25 years, based on the borrower's original balance. The second option is a new plan called the Repayment Assistance Plan, which sets borrowers' payments at 1% to 10% of their income, and any remaining balance is forgiven after 30 years.
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