$ 150 billion to deport immigrants? Here are 4 other ideas.

What else can the government pay for with the $ 150 billion it just transferred for massive deportation?

We are not a financial publication – so Rewire News Group Editorial director Catesby Holmes has called on a numbers man to do mathematics. And it appears that $ 150 billion could finance a lot of healthcare, from reopening each Shuttered Rural Hospital and leading them to offer 40 million people for 12 years for an annual breast cancer screening for a decade.

“Government budget decisions include inherent considerations,” economist in Healthcare Graham Gardner told Holmes. “And worried citizens have to think about where our money is going and how it could possibly be used better.”

Read RNGThe last analysis of the financing of mass expulsion could, instead, pay for part of the country’s health care.

Antidemocratic actions

• Trump on 11 August said he will take federal control of the Washington police, DC and 600 National Guard troops in the capital of the country, with reference to “out of hand” crime, the New York Times reported. Data shows that crime in DC reaches a low of 30 years in 2024, According to the American lawyer’s office for the district of Columbia.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi has commissioned Federal Public Prosecutors to start a large jury investigation into Claims that Obama officials of Obama’s administration have invented information about the interference of Russia in the 2016 elections, CNN reported on August 4.
• The New York Times unveiled on August 6 That President Donald Trump has considered Privé to mediate in the mayor’s race of New York City to stop the democratic nominated Zohran Mamdani. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who lost the Democratic Primary and is now as an independent candidate, he told the managers in private that “does not want to fight personally [Trump]” According to the New York Times.
• Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) said that the Federal Bureau of Investigations will help find Texas democratic laws who fled Texas to block a vote about a controversial congress-re-distribution card that would give the Republicans heavily in the 2026 mid-term elections, Texas Tribune reported.

Pro-democracy wins

• The Attorney General Letitia James of New York complies with the federal government to prevent this from investigating and stopping gender-confirming care. The lawsuit, submitted to more than a dozen other states and Washington, DC, accuses the Trump administration of trying to try a “back door strategy” to limit such care through the state laws that protect transgender patients, The 19th reported.
• The Stanford dailyThe student newspaper of Stanford University, last week Minister of Foreign Affairs Marco Rubio and Homeland Security complained due to alleged violations of freedom of expression, and said that the threats of deportation and the cancellations of the visa staff have caused a visa for self -censorship, NBC News reported.
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency said on August 4 that it would not remember subsidies from states and cities that Boycott Israeli companies, According to the New York Times. The statement reverses an earlier policy to limit the recipients of subsidies “commercial relationships, specifically with Israeli companies.”

Reproductive rights

• The White House does not require health insurance companies in Vitro Fertiling (IVF), the Washington Post reported. This breaks with Trump’s campaign blake to oblige IVF coverage or to have the government pay for the process. A single IVF cycle can cost between $ 15,000 and $ 30,000.
• A proposed Trump administration rule would prevent pregnant veterans from receiving abortion care in cases of rape, incest or to protect their health at the Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals, the Washington Post reported. The proposal, submitted on 4 August, aims to withdraw a policy from the Biden era that has expanded access to abortion for veterans and their qualifying beneficiaries, even in states with abortion prohibitions.
• The office of the Tennessee Attorney General has medical groups for their abortion records as part of a lawsuit on exceptions to the state’s abortion prohibition, the Guardian reported.

LGBTQ+ Rights

• The Air Force said it will not give transgender service members with 15-18 years of service the option to retire early, which means that they will lose their pension benefits, According to the Associated Press. Trans-service members will have to choose between “taking a flat-rate separation payment offered to junior troops or will be removed from the service,” the AP reported.
• US representatives of the United Nations object to the use of the word ‘gender’ in UN documents and push the anti-transtrans agenda of the Trump administration worldwide, Propublica reported.
• New Hampshire became the first State in New England to prohibit the gender -confirming care for minors last week after Gov. Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, had signed two legislative proposals, According to New Hampshire Public Radio.
• The Ministry of Interior Security has moved to prevent transgender female athletes from getting “extraordinary skills” visa with which they can compete in women’s sports, Huppost reported. The policy focuses on a small group of people – about 5 percent of the university athletes are international students, and the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the Senate said last year that he was only aware of about ten transatters competing at the university level, according to the university level, according to the university level, according to the university level, Huppost.

Immigration

• A federal judge has temporarily stopped construction of the controversial immigration center in the Florida Everglades, while hearing challenges brought by environmental groups, NPR reported. Those groups say that the construction will harm the water quality of the Everglades and the Legally protected Florida Panther.
• Immigrants without legal status that a green card or permanent stay has requested through a citizen’s spouse or family member can now be subjected to deportation. Depending on how the new policy is maintained, marking “a change in immigration enforcement and it will display people who have to be eligible to adapt to a legal permanent status,” ” A professor in immigration legislation told NBC News.
• The American census will soon be able to exclude immigrations without papers, the New York Times reported on August 7. The changes ordered by Trump, which is planned for 2030, can re -explain federal financing and conference seats on ways that the Republicans favor, according to the Time. A federal court hindered Trump’s earlier attempt to change how the census collects population data, in 2020. At the time, the Supreme Court refused to focus on the merits of the change; This time the judges could eventually hear a case about Trump’s newest census involved.
• Rwanda takes a maximum of 250 deported immigrants from the United States in its custody as part of a deal that closed the Trump administration, NBC News reported on August 5. It is unclear what Rwanda, if there is something, will receive for the acceptance of deported immigrants, According to the Associated Press. The agreement, who was reportedly inked in June, comes in the midst of an unprecedented effort from Trump to deport a million people from the US per year. The US has already deported immigrants to South Sudan, Eswatini, El Salvador and other countries.

Health and Science

• Health and Human Services -Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said August 5 that the agency will end more than $ 500 million to MRNA vaccine projects, NPR reported. Initiatives to develop extra COVID-19 and H5N1 bird flu vaccines were part of those cuts. The announcement followed new research that suggests that H5N1 spread through the air on dairy farms, According to the New York Times.
• The Trump administration has imposed a limit on Medicare fees for connections after a donation of $ 5 million to a Trump Super Pac by a biotech company that was losing money if the regulation came into force, the New York Times Reported last week. The policy from the BIDen era, introduced in April 2024, would have limited the medicine coverage of skin-like wound bandages to a list of 17 products that, according to its effectiveness, had demonstrated. Absent in that list was the biotech that donated to the Super Pac, affiliated with Trump.

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Rewire recommends

• Our podcast tree! Lawyered is back for a quick summer session, while the Supreme Court is preparing for its next term. Last week Imani and Jess found a thinking conversation with Elizabeth Sepper, professor of law at the University of Texas in Austin, about how Scotus fades the line between church and state. You can listen to the episode here or – and this is something new here – you can now View B! L on YouTube.

Relaxed

• Wednesday is back! Part one of the second season of the hit based on the Addams Family Show has just fallen on Netflix, and we can’t wait to see what our favorite little Macabre Weirdo is planning.
• We are also obsessed with a new show, The Hunting women (Also on Netflix). It is a machining and steaming – psychological thriller, with exactly the right amount of politically woven.