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When she transitioned to working part-time last year, Rosa María Carranza counted on getting Medicare and Social Security checks. But Carranza and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully present immigrants will soon be cut out of Medicare. The GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed last July by President Donald Trump, barred certain categories of lawfully present immigrants from Medicare.
On January 5, the Department of Health and Human Services reduced the number of diseases targeted on the childhood immunization schedule from 17 to 11. The changes come due to false claims pushed by President Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the number of vaccines for U.S. children could be linked to chronic health conditions or autism.
President Trump launched a “large-scale strike” into Venezuela on January 3, 2026, capturing its President Nicolás Maduro in the largest U.S. military intervention in Latin America since 1989. Trump said the U.S. will indefinitely run Venezuela, and its oil industry, until a “proper transition can take place”.
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old former state assemblyman from Queens and self-described democratic socialist, is New York City’s first Muslim mayor and the youngest in over a century. Mamdani ran on a progressive platform to make the city more affordable and won the 2025 mayoral election with over 50% of the vote.
The entirety of the White House’s historic East Wing was demolished on October 23, making way for President Trump’s plan to construct a massive multi-million dollar ballroom in its place. The project is now expected to be larger than initially planned, increasing the cost by at least $100 million.
On July 29, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the Trump administration’s plan to rescind the Endangerment Finding, the landmark scientific declaration that greenhouse gases harm human health and the environment. Repealing it would prevent future administrations from limiting harmful pollution under the Clean Air Act.