Episode 57DHWO  June 13 2025  The Trump Big Bill More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades

In Episode DHWO    1 Headlines    2 Air Pollution from Wood Burning    The Canadian Wildfires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan  What to Know About Smoke and Air Quality    3  The Trump Big Bill More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades   4 What We Know About the No Kings Protests on Saturday      5 Do Californians Really Pay Trump Bills?     6 Trump Blocks California E V Rules in Latest Move to Rein In the State     California leaders said the state intends to challenge the move in court   and to find new ways to move drivers toward electric vehicles       Main Content

1A Headlines  The New York Times  June 13 2025    Air Pollution from Wood Burning    The Canadian Wildfires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan  What to Know About Smoke and Air Quality   The New York Times    Democrats    Opinion   Obama Is not Going to Save You   The New York Times    Nature and Science    Agriculture     History You Can Eat   The New York Times    Nature and Science    Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops   So Scientists Are Looking to Alter the Plants   The New York Times    Trump Actions    State Dept    Official Posts   Then Deletes   Attack on Colleague About NATO   The New York Times    Trump Actions    Trump Leaves European Leaders Praying for a Boring G7 Summit   The New York Times    Trump Actions    The Trump New Apprentice Boardroom  The Oval Office   The New York Times    Trump Actions affected by War    Who Are the Iranian Generals Killed by Israel  Here is What We Know      The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts    Opinion   The One Area Where the Trump National Institute of Health N I H    Cuts Might Actually Make Sense   The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts   The Trump Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades   The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts    What We Know About No Kings Protests Ahead of The Trump Military Parade on Saturday   The New York Times    Trump Tariffs and Influence of War    Oil Prices Surge and Stock Markets Stumble After Israel Strikes Iran   The New York Times    Trump Tariffs    Trump Live Updates  Home Appliances Will Be Targeted With Tariffs   The New York Times    Trump Tariffs    Where is the Inflation From Tariffs  Just Wait   Economists Say      The New York Times    Ukraine    Russian Forces Expand Fighting to a New Region of Eastern Ukraine   The New York Times

1B Headlines  The New York Times  June 12 2025    California and Trump Budget Cuts    Do Californians Really Pay Trump Bills    The New York Times    Climate Change Could Complicate Anti Submarine Warfare   The New York Times    Democrats    6 Takeaways From the Gavin Newsom Appearance on The Daily   The New York Times    Human Interest    Brian Wilson and Sly Stone  Pop World Builders Dogged by Darkness   The New York Times    Human Interest     What is the Best Way to Wake Up    The New York Times    India    Valmik Thapar   Tenacious Tiger Conservationist in India   Is Dead   The New York Times    Medicine and Science   RAWSEP View   Smoking still causes cancer although anti heroes in cable TV are pushing cigarette smoking for some unknown monetary reason    From The Materialists to The Bear    Pop Culture Takes Up Smoking Again   The New York Times    Medicine and Science    RAWSEP View and RFK Junior Anti Science Leadership and Vaccines    What the RFK Junior ACIP Shakeup Could Mean for Vaccines   The New York Times    Nature and Science    In the Calls of Bonobos   Scientists Hear Hints of Language   The New York Times    Nature and Science    Opinion   The Undermining of Science in America   The New York Times    Nature and Science    Shining a Light on the World of Microproteins   The New York Times    Nature and Science    The Health Benefits of Gardening   The New York Times    Trump Actions    ABC Says Terry Moran   Suspended for Social Media Posts   Will Not Return   The New York Times    Trump Air Pollution Promotion    Trump Blocks California E V Rules in Latest Move to Rein In the State   The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts    RAWSEP View and Cuts to Public Broadcasting    Trump Live Updates  News on Steel Tariffs   Farm Workers and Public Broadcast Funding   The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts RAWSEP View   and Trump was unable to identify   or identify with   who is good and who is evil in Les Misérables    A Night Out for Trump at the Theater With a Pocket of Dissent   The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts    G O P Senators Want Fewer Cuts to Food Aid   Teeing Up a Fight with the House   The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts    Head of FEMA Command Center Quits After Trump Says He will Phase Out the Agency   The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts    How Every House Member Voted on 9 Billion dollars in Proposed Spending Cuts   The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts    Opinion   Elizabeth Warren  Trump Is Right About This One Thing   The New York Times    Trump Budget Cuts    Opinion   Red State Universities Will Get Hit by The Trump Cuts   Too   The New York Times    Trump Immigration    Opinion   Why The Trump Immigration Crackdown Defines the Right   The New York Times    Trump Immigration    Republicans to Press Hochul   Walz and Pritzker on Immigration in Hearing   The New York Times    Trump Immigration    Trump Tells Farmers Changes Are Coming to Immigration Crackdown   The New York Times    Trump Tariffs    China     RAWSEP View now sometimes called from the China point of view The Art of The Stall    New China Trade Deal Takes the U S Back to Where It Started   The New York Times    Trump Tariffs    China    The Art of the Stall  the China Strategy for Dealing With Trump   The New York Times

2 Air Pollution from Wood Burning    The Canadian Wildfires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan  What to Know About Smoke and Air Quality    Canada Faces a Challenging Wildfire Season What to Know as Fires Rage in the West     Wildfires are forecast to continue and expand through the summer in Western Canada and parts of the Canadian north    Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times    June 12   2025     Western Canada and parts of the Canadian north will face a challenging wildfire situation over the summer   Canadian officials predicted on Thursday    But at this point   they said   the season appears unlikely to match that of 2023   when fires ignited throughout much of the country   sending choking smoke to the United States and as far as Europe    There were 2  225 wildfires burning across Canada on Thursday   with 121 of them out of control    Government officials said that recent rainfall in parts of Western Canada might temporarily reduce new outbreaks but was not sufficient to extinguish the current fires    Long term weather trends   officials said   indicate temperatures will be higher than usual in Western Canada and areas to its north this summer   leading to a continued high risk of wildfires there    More than 30000 people have evacuated their homes   mainly in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba   where officials have declared a state of emergency    Many of those evacuees   as well as other from northwestern Ontario   have fled from Indigenous communities and   in some cases   were airlifted out by the Canadian Armed Forces    Last week   smoke from the wildfires drifted as far north as Newfoundland and as far south as Florida    Two people were killed in May after a small town in Manitoba was engulfed in flames    Their deaths were an ominous start to The Canadian wildfire season   which usually runs from March until October    prairie region that includes the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and much of Alberta has seen intense   above average heat this spring    That   combined with a stationary high pressure system in central Canada   which causes air to sink downward and dry out   has primed conditions for wildfires   according to Climate Central   a nonprofit research group    Eight firefighters were killed in 2023   The Canadian worst wildfire season on record   but there were no civilian deaths    That year 7100 wildfires burned 37 million acres   an area larger than England   according to the Canadian government    Scientists later called the wildfires the top carbon emitter of 2023    

3 The Trump Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times     June 12   2025    The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners and reduces benefits for the poor    If it is enacted   that combination would make it more regressive than any major tax or entitlement law in decades    The original major tax cut bills from the George W    Bush administration delivered an even greater share of benefits to the highest earners than the current bill would    But unlike the Trump bill the Bush tax cut did not cut benefits to the poor    That made the laws regressive   but no group looked worse off       The cases of emergency stimulus     One other major category of bills has come during times of acute economic stress   when the government temporarily increases spending   often disproportionately aimed at providing assistance to the poor    This happened during the Great Recession in the late 2000s and the Covid pandemic    Those major stimulus bills had no losing group    The 2025 bill   in addition to its regressivity   adds to the deficit amid a much healthier economy    About the data We collected distributional analyses for major tax and social welfare bills dating to the 1990s most were also reconciliation bills  

4 What We Know About the No Kings Protests on Saturday      Organizers have planned demonstrations in cities and towns across the country on the same day as the Trump parade in Washington to celebrate the Army       Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times     June 13   2025    Planned protests against Trump that are expected to be among the largest since the Trump second term began will be held across the country on Saturday    The demonstrations will occur in all 50 states   and organizers have estimated that there will be roughly 2000 of them ranging from small groups in more rural communities to larger rallies in major cities including New York   Philadelphia   Chicago   Atlanta   Dallas and Denver    According to a map provided by organizers   there are some three dozen events scheduled in Indiana alone    Protests are also scheduled in other countries including Britain   Mexico and Germany    The main events are slated for Atlanta   Chicago   Houston   New York   Phoenix   Philadelphia and Charlotte   N   C    But there are also protests planned in smaller communities like Lewisburg   West  Virginia    Pinedale   Wyoming    and Moab   Utah    Philadelphia   a city rich with revolutionary history   will host the event national livestream    One major city is notably absent from the list of planned demonstrations Washington   the site of the military parade    The omission was intentional    Trump warned that any protesters who rallied against the military parade in Washington would be met with very big force    Instead of drawing more attention to the military parade and perhaps giving Trump the opportunity to carry out his threat   organizers want the focus to be on the people    We want to create contrast   Not conflict    What time will the protests be held? While plans and schedules vary from city to city   many are scheduled between late morning and early afternoon    At the flagship protest in Philadelphia   organizers plan on leading a march from LOVE Park to the Philadelphia Museum of Art   

5 Do Californians Really Pay The Trump Bills?     The rising tension between Trump and Governor Gavin Newsom is reviving questions about who pays into and who takes from the federal government    Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times     June 12   2025    In his escalating conflict with Trump   Governor Gavin Newsom suggested last week that California had some leverage over the federal government    We pay over 80 BILLION dollars more in taxes than we get back   he wrote on X    Maybe it is time to cut that off    His office followed up with a news release titled Californians pay the Trump bills    In case you missed it   California is the biggest donor state in the country  providing around 83 billion dollars more to the federal government than it receives  from the federal government nearly three times as much as the next biggest donor state    Though     Newsom has since said he would not ask state residents to withhold federal taxes   he said he still felt the need to respond to     The Trump threats to cut off federal funding to the state and to the deployment of active duty military to Los Angeles amid protests    The term donor states might be relatively obscure   but it captures a dynamic that underlies many national policy debates    And it taps into longstanding philosophical questions about whether it is fair that some states prop up the country more than others and whether that is the right way to look at things in the first place    Which states are donor states? Most of the donor states are rich   blue states    Think Massachusetts  New Jersey  Washington and yes California    The recipient states are mostly poor states like New Mexico   West Virginia and Mississippi    There are a few exceptions   like Virginia   a blue state whose residents receive   on net   about $12000 in federal contracts and wages more than they pay in taxes    On average   residents from recipient states receive about $3000  more than they pay    Donor States Net payment per resident Massachusetts $4800 New Jersey $4300 Washington $3500 California $3200 New Hampshire $3100 New York $2300 Minnesota $1900 Colorado $1700 Connecticut $1500 Utah $1400 Wyoming $1300 Illinois $1300 Nevada $700  are the recipient States    Net receipt per resident New Mexico $14800 Maryland $12300 Virginia $11600 West Virginia $10300 Alaska $10000  Mississippi $9100 Kentucky $8500 Alabama $8200 Hawaii $7600 Oklahoma $6600 Louisiana $6400 Maine $6300 Arkansas $5600 South Carolina $5600 Arizona $4400 Missouri $4300 North Carolina $3800 Rhode Island $3600 Montana $3500 Delaware $3400 Indiana $3300 Vermont $3300 Tennessee $3200 Ohio $3100 Pennsylvania $2700 Michigan $2700 Kansas $2300 South Dakota $2200 Georgia $2100 Iowa $2000  North Dakota $2000  Oregon $2000  Idaho $1800 Texas $1500 Wisconsin $1400 Florida $800 Nebraska $200   The Rockefeller Institute has been tabulating estimates for years   and its numbers   shown above   are often the ones cited by politicians themselves    What determines if your state is a donor or recipient? It is a simple equation taxes paid to the federal government minus payments received from it    If it is positive   you are a donor state    If it is negative   you are a recipient state    The math of each state varies somewhat but here is how the taxes paid roughly break down    85 percent  Personal income taxes or social insurance taxes   like Social Security and Medicare    15 percent  Corporate income taxes   or smaller taxes like the estate tax or excise taxes on gas and alcohol When a politician says a state is paying the federal government   it mostly refers to the money flowing from the residents and private companies of a state   not the state itself    Saying Massachusetts pays $20000  per capita really means all the federal taxes paid by individuals and organizations in Massachusetts averages out to $20000  per resident    No matter what phrasing you use a state like Massachusetts pays much more than West Virginia which sends about $8500 per resident to the federal government     On the other side is payments flowing from the federal government to states    60 percent  Direct payments to individuals   almost all Social Security and Medicare    20 percent  Grants to states to disperse primarily Medicaid   the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families welfare program and things like highway funding and housing assistance    20 percent  Wages to federal employees or contractors Direct payments from the federal government do not vary as much as taxes do    West Virginia receives the most direct payments per state around $12000  per resident   while states at the bottom of the list   like Colorado or California   receive about $8500    Why do politicians use this term? It can be a very useful political message   especially for representatives from wealthy states    the first person to push the concept was a New York Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the 1980s and 1990s       Governor Newsom recently used the term to mirror the Moynihan sentiment    In a recent podcast he used the California donor status to argue his state was a tent pole of the American economy while pointing out Texas was a taker    It is a mythology that somehow red states are dominating and blue states are struggling   he said    In 2020   Governor Andrew Cuomo used the term to defend federal coronavirus relief spending in New York   emphasizing that New York was the No    1 donor state   while the Kentucky of Mitch McConnell was taking our dollars out of the pot    

6 Trump Blocks California E   V    Rules in Latest Move to Rein In the State     California leaders said the state intends to challenge the move in court   and to find new ways to move drivers toward electric vehicles    Excerpts edited by RAWSEP for brevity and clarity and relationship to Residents Against Wood Smoke Emission Particulates a 501c3 nonprofit organization    The New York Times     June 12   2025    Trump signed joint resolutions of Congress on Thursday that block the California effort to phase out gasoline powered vehicles   his latest attempt to reduce the power of the most populous state in the nation    The Republican led Congress passed the resolutions in May to reverse the approval by the Biden Administration of the California electric vehicle efforts    When signed by Trump  joint resolutions revoking federal rules carry the force of law and are not subject to judicial review    Even so   the move drew an immediate legal challenge from California   as well as an executive order from Gov    Gavin Newsom directing state officials to find another path that would move California drivers toward electric vehicles and encourage companies to make them    On Thursday Trump took aim at the California longstanding authority under the federal Clean Air Act of 1970 to set pollution standards for the state that are more strict than federal limits   and at Governor The Newsom ambition to fight climate change with an aggressive transition to electric vehicles    Repealing the California automobile policy is central to the Trump agenda of bolstering the production and use of fossil fuels in the United States   while eliminating policies that promote renewable energy and reduce planet warming greenhouse gas emissions   The Trump action reversed a Biden administration decision that allowed the state to require that electric vehicles make up a progressively larger share of new vehicles sold in California until 2035   when the state would ban the sale of new gasoline powered cars entirely    State leaders see the transition to electric cars as a tool to improve California Air Quality    The California ban on the sale of new gasoline powered cars did not apply to used vehicles   so it would not have completely eliminated them from the roads    But voter concerns about the California high cost of living gave Republicans and some Democrats reason to object to the California plan   because electric vehicles tend to cost more than comparable gasoline powered models    The executive order that Newsom signed Thursday directs the California Air Resources Board to come up with new ways to encourage electric vehicle use and reduce emissions   according to the Newsom office    Under it the state would prioritize funding for E V rebates and will seek to develop new incentive programs    And it would steer state agencies to purchase fleet vehicles from manufacturers who agree to phase out new gasoline powered cars    I am signing an executive order to keep California on track with our world leading transition to cleaner cars Newsom said in a statement