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Don’t Get Distracted: 5 Trump Policies To Watch Now
While headlines spotlight Trump’s feud with Elon Musk, advocates warn that GOP-backed policies quietly threaten Black health care, jobs, civil rights, and communities nationwide.
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By Stacy M. Brown
Senior National Correspondent
Black Press USA
The public feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has Republicans scrambling – but civil rights and other advocates warn that the drama may serve as a smokescreen, drawing attention away from harmful policies disproportionately targeting Black Americans.
While the headlines focus on personal attacks, the Congressional Budget Office reports that the GOP bill would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt and leave nearly 11 million people without health insurance.
At the same time, the Trump administration has renewed travel bans targeting majority-Black nations, slashed federal agency budgets, gutted DEI efforts, and advanced fossil fuel projects in Black communities.
The Congressional Black Caucus and others warn that these policies amount to a deliberate attack on marginalized groups under the guise of fiscal reform – while the public remains fixated on billionaire infighting.
Top 5 Reasons Black Americans Should Pay Close Attention:
1. Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare could leave millions – including a disproportionate number of Black Americans – without health coverage.
2. Mass layoffs in federal agencies threaten jobs heavily held by Black workers.
3. New travel bans target Black and brown nations, breaking families and stoking racism.
4. Environmental deregulation fast-tracks toxic projects through Black communities.
5. Voter suppression efforts and authoritarian executive actions threaten Black political power and civil rights hard-won over decades.

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