Buried within the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a provision that could improve or even save the lives of the 30 million Americans suffering from rare diseases.

While our government ramps up its hiring of immigration enforcement officers and “makes America safe again,” let me tell you about a family I know. I have written about them here before. They are eight global citizens who fled their homeland in the midst of a civil war.

As Congress raced to send the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to President Donald Trump before the Fourth of July, Erin Murphy pounced. “If you cut health care to give tax cuts to the wealthy you should have to bathe and care for the seniors, sick and disabled you hurt,” the Minnesota Legislature’s DFL Senate majority leader posted on X.

Florida did not expand Medicaid as most states did, so the impact may be lesser than other places, but reductions loom.

U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner, a Washington Republican who represents the eastern quarter of the state including Spokane, praised the Big Beautiful Bill in a July 3 news release, citing its support for small businesses and border security. He also noted it locks in Trump tax cuts from 2017.

The national partisan divide over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act extends to Stark County's congressional delegation.

Lawmakers, trade professionals and professional bettors worry about a new Republican provision that will reduce the deduction for gambling losses.

The 900-page federal bill is expected to promote private schools at the expense of public ones, reduce student loan options and food assistance, cut into school budgets and heavily tax private university endowments.