By KEVIN FREKING

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, a slight increase in the projection that takes into account the final tweaks that Republicans made before getting the legislation over the finish line.

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More than 10 million people will be uninsured under the law in 2034 because of the law, CBO found, an improvement from an earlier projection that found 11.8 million people losing coverage over the decade.

The release of the CBO analysis Monday comes at the end of a grueling legislative fight, but at the start of a longer political struggle to come as the two parties clash over the law’s impact on the economy, healthcare and government programs. Republicans are touting the bill as a tax cut for all Americans, yet a recent AP-NORC poll found about two-thirds of U.S. adults expect the new tax law will help the rich as Democrats attack the legislation.

The bill Trump signed into law on July 4 extended current tax rates for individuals that were set to expire at the end of this year and temporarily created new tax deductions for tips, overtime and auto interest loans for new vehicles assembled in the U.S. Republicans also used the bill to cut future spending on Medicaid and food assistance, and to phase out certain clean energy tax credits more quickly.

Democrats were quick to highlight the CBO’s findings.

“Today’s report reminds us of something: facts are stubborn and the facts are clear,” said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. ”The big, ugly betrayal is a loser for the country and will be a loser for the Republicans.”

Republicans say the bill was critical to ensure most Americans didn’t experience a significant tax increase next year. Trump and Republicans have also insisted that economic growth will exceed the CBO’s projections for the next decade, erasing the projected deficits as more revenue comes into the Treasury than anticipated.

Nonpartisan fiscal watchdogs also highlighted the CBO’s latest projection. Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said there will be a shorter-term “sugar high” as stimulus makes its way through the economy. But modelers from across the ideological spectrum agree that any sustained economic changes are likely to be modestly beneficial, or negative.

“And not one serious estimate claims this bill will improve our fiscal situation,” MacGuineas said. “Rather, positive growth effects are likely to be swamped by the effects of higher debt and interest rates.”

The CBO said more than $1 trillion in deficit savings is generated through the health portions of the bill, which includes new work requirements for certain Medicaid beneficiaries in states that expanded the program through the Affordable Care Act.

Some late changes on Medicaid were made to the bill to win over holdouts. One of those changes added a $50 billion fund for rural hospitals.

Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.

By DYLAN LOVAN

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday sentenced an ex-Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the 2020 deadly Breonna Taylor raid, declining a Justice Department recommendation that he be given no prison time.

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Brett Hankison, who fired 10 shots during the raid but didn’t hit anyone, was the only officer on the scene charged in the Black woman’s death. He is the first person sentenced to prison in the case that rocked the city of Louisville and spawned weeks of street protests over police brutality five years ago.

U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings sentenced Hankison at a hearing Monday afternoon. She said that no prison time “is not appropriate” for Hankison and said she was “ startled” that there weren’t more people injured in the raid.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge prepared Monday afternoon to sentence an ex-Kentucky police officer convicted of using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid, days after the U.S. Justice Department recommended he receive no prison time in the Black woman’s fatal shooting.

Brett Hankison fired his weapon the night of the March 2020 botched drug raid. His shots didn’t hit or injure anyone, but flew through Taylor’s walls into a neighboring apartment.

The 26-year-old’s death, along with the May 2020 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, sparked racial injustice protests nationwide that year.

Though the sentence could amount to several years, if U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings heeds the Justice Department’s request, it would mean none of the Louisville police officers involved in the raid would face prison time.

Last week, the U.S. Justice Department recommended no prison time for Hankison, in an abrupt about-face by federal prosecutors that has angered critics after the department spent years prosecuting the former detective.

The Justice Department, which has changed leadership under President Donald Trump since Hankison’s conviction, said in a sentencing memo last week that “there is no need for a prison sentence to protect the public” from Hankison. Federal prosecutors suggested time already served, which amounts to one day, and three years of supervised probation.

Prosecutors at his previous federal trials aggressively pursued a conviction against Hankison, 49, arguing that he blindly fired 10 shots into Taylor’s windows without identifying a target. Taylor was shot in her hallway by two other officers after her boyfriend fired from inside the apartment, striking an officer in the leg. Neither of the other officers was charged in state or federal court after prosecutors deemed they were justified in returning fire into the apartment. Louisville police used a drug warrant to enter the apartment, but found no drugs or cash inside.

A separate jury deadlocked on federal charges against Hankison in 2023, and he was acquitted on state charges of wanton endangerment in 2022.

In their recent sentencing memo, federal prosecutors wrote that though Hankison’s “response in these fraught circumstances was unreasonable given the benefit of hindsight, that unreasonable response did not kill or wound Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend, her neighbors, defendant’s fellow officers, or anyone else.”

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who helped Taylor’s family secure a $12 million wrongful death settlement against the city of Louisville, has called the Justice Department recommendation “an insult to the life of Breonna Taylor and a blatant betrayal of the jury’s decision.” He added in a social media post that it “sends the unmistakable message that white officers can violate the civil rights of Black Americans with near-total impunity.”

On Monday, the Louisville Metro Police Department arrested four people in front of the courthouse who it said were “creating confrontation, kicking vehicles, or otherwise creating an unsafe environment.” Authorities didn’t list the charges those arrested would face.

“We understand this case caused pain and damaged trust between our department and the community,” a police statement said. “We particularly respect and value the 1st Amendment. However, what we saw today in front of the courthouse in the street was not safe, acceptable or legal.”

A U.S. Probation Office presentencing report said Hankison should face a range of 135 to 168 months imprisonment on the excessive force conviction, according to the memo. But federal prosecutors said multiple factors — including that Hankison’s two other trials ended with no convictions — should greatly reduce the potential punishment.

The memorandum was submitted by Harmeet Dhillon, chief of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and a Trump political appointee who in May moved to cancel settlements with Louisville and Minneapolis that had called for overhauling their police departments.

In the Taylor case, three other ex-Louisville police officers have been charged with crafting a falsified warrant, but have not gone to trial. None were at the scene when Taylor was shot.

Investigators say a 6-month-old boy who is believed to have died of bacterial meningitis was living in a “dirty” and “cluttered” and black-mold filled house in Big Lake deemed unlivable by health officials.

The boy died early Friday, said Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office Cmdr. Ben Zawacki.

When investigators responded to the 911 call they found an “extremely dirty and cluttered house” and “found black mold in numerous locations throughout the house,” according to a Monday statement.

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En un memorándum el director interino del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE por sus siglas en inglés), Todd M. Lyons pedía que ya no se concedieran fianzas a quienes se encuentran ilegalmente en Estados Unidos, lo que les obliga a permanecer detenidos “durante todo el proceso de expulsión” del país, impidiéndoles ser puestos en libertad.

Un centro de detención del ICE en Arizona. (Flickr/ICE)

El 15 de julio, el Washington Post reveló que el gobierno de Donald Trump había puesto la regla de que los inmigrantes detenidos que entraron sin permiso al país ya no tenían derecho a una audiencia de fianza mientras luchan contra la deportación en los tribunales.

En un memorándum, el director interino del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE por sus siglas en inglés), Todd M. Lyons pedía que ya no se concedieran fianzas a quienes se encuentran en los Estados Unidos sin haber sido revisados ni comprobados por las autoridades, lo que les obliga a permanecer detenidos “durante todo el proceso de expulsión” del país, impidiéndoles ser puestos en libertad.

En el pasado, los inmigrantes que llevaban mucho tiempo en el país podían solicitar una audiencia de fianza ante un juez de inmigración y, por lo general, los inmigrantes podían solicitar la libertad bajo fianza si se determinaba que no representaban una amenaza para la seguridad pública.

La nueva drástica política de detención se fundamenta, argumenta la administración, en una parte de la legislación sobre inmigración que determina que los inmigrantes sin estatus legal “deberán ser arrestados” luego del arresto.

La parte del memorándum que Reuters tuvo acceso, animaba a los fiscales de ICE a “presentar argumentos alternativos en apoyo de la detención continuada” durante las audiencias de los tribunales de inmigración.

Los inmigrantes ya están sujetos a detención obligatoria sin fianza si han sido condenados por asesinato u otros delitos graves. Además, este año, con la Ley Laken Riley, se añadieron otros delitos relacionados con robo y otros a la lista de delitos que conllevan a la detención sin opción a libertad bajo fianza, incluso si no han sido condenados.

Así que para hablar del memo, sus implicaciones y cómo se otorgaban audiencies para salir bajo fianza, invitamos a Rosa Santana, codirectora de Envision Freedom Fund, uno de los fondos de fianzas para inmigrantes más grande del país y el único en el área de Nueva York.

Más detalles en nuestra conversación a continuación.

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