Trump Announces $100 Billion Stargate A.I. Initiative With OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank

President Trump on Tuesday announced a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to create at least $100 billion in computing infrastructure to power artificial intelligence. The venture, called Stargate, adds to tech companies’ significant investments in U.S. data centers, huge buildings full of servers that provide computing power. Stargate could eventually invest as much […]

Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls

House Republicans hunting for ways to pay for President Trump’s tax cuts have called for cutting the federal government’s share of Medicaid spending, including a proposal that would effectively gut the Affordable Care Act’s 2014 expansion of the program. Cutting Medicaid spending, which is expected to be central to fulfilling the budget plan that House […]

Trump’s Embrace of RFK Jr. Puts Fluoride, Vaccines and Obamacare on the Agenda

With candidates and voters focused on the economy, immigration and abortion, the 2024 presidential election has been unusually light on health policy. But former President Donald J. Trump’s recent pledge to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild on health” has put the issue front and center in the final days of the campaign. With […]