Weekend Report: What's going on?

Biden plans more pardons, GOP threatens more charges. Millions will lose health insurance under GOP. Republicans gunning for cuts to Social Security while planning tax cuts for wealthy.

The media spectacle over President Biden’s broad pardon of his son Hunter was ridiculous. And now Biden is mulling more preemptive pardons, particularly of those who will be targets of Trump and his choice for the FBI director, Kash Patel. But are preemptive pardons constitutional, even though Richard Nixon was given one by Gerald Ford? Republicans plan to test that, seeking new charges against Hunter Biden, as some Democrats fret over the entire notion of preemptive pardons…

Now that the GOP is in control—of the White House, the Senate, and the House—everything is on them. And in the wake of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO—which had people expressing their rage at private health insurers on social media, darkly connecting with the possible motive of the killer—millions of people could soon lose healthcare under the Affordable Care Act because of the GOP’s callousness and negligence…

Republicans spent the election campaign talking about inflation and high costs and denying they were moving to actually cost people more by cutting Social Security and Medicare. But now that the election is over, cuts to Social Security are being floated, while the GOP plans tax cuts for the wealthy…