This week we're looking at the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill on the number of uninsured and digging into if there actually is White Genocide in South Africa.

Ukraine-Russian War

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/china/trump-speak-putin-end-war-ukraine-europeans-demand-ceasefire-2025-05-19/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/kyiv-mayor-says-drones-missiles-attack-city-triggering-fires-2025-05-23/

Israel

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-says-107-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-thursday-2025-05-23/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-still-waiting-aid-pressure-mounts-israel-2025-05-21/

Big Beautiful Bill impacts

• https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text
• https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-05/61422-Reconciliation-Distributional-Analysis.pdf
• https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/E_and_C_Markup_Subtitle_D_Part_I_5_12_25_4628d60c2a.pdf
• https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/harsh-work-requirements-in-house-republican-bill-would-take-away-medicaid-coverage
• https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2023-04/59109-Pallone.pdf

South Africa Genocide?

• https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/under-attack-by-trump-south-africas-ramaphosa-responds-with-trade-deal-offer-2025-05-21/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-makes-false-claims-white-genocide-south-africa-during-ramaphosa-meeting-2025-05-21/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africa-town-leader-sad-about-trumps-misuse-white-crosses-video-2025-05-23/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9w4n6gp5o

Covering Trump's Latest Executive Order on Drug Prices

Sources:

Ukraine-Russia War

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-is-satisfied-with-ukraine-talks-istanbul-ready-keep-talking-2025-05-16/

Israel Arab War

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/deadly-israeli-strikes-pound-gaza-trump-says-people-are-starving-2025-05-16/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-would-make-gaza-freedom-zone-trump-says-qatar-2025-05-15/

Myanmar

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-opposition-says-junta-airstrike-kills-17-school-children-2025-05-12/

US Aid update

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aid-cuts-leave-food-millions-mouldering-storage-2025-05-16/

US pharmacy prices

• https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/delivering-most-favored-nation-prescription-drug-pricing-to-american-patients/
• https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/insulin-affordability-ira-data-point
• https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-reducing-cost-insulin-improving-healthcare-nations-seniors/
• https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-facts-about-the-35-insulin-copay-cap-in-medicare/
• https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-14087-lowering-prescription-drug-costs-for-americans
• https://rightcarealliance.org/activities/insulin/
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10061307/
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/
• https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trumps-drug-pricing-order-threatens-roches-50-billion-us-investment-plans-2025-05-14/
• https://www.fda.gov/media/92548/download
• https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/how-are-prescription-drug-prices-determined
• https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/how-drug-prices-are-negotiated-germany

This week were covering the conflict between India and Pakistan, Bill Gate's 200 billion dollar giveaway.

Sources:

West Africa

• https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/conflict-extreme-weather-worsening-hunger-west-central-africa-wfp-warns-2025-05-09/

Ukraine-Russia War

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-ukraine-keeps-trying-breach-border-2025-05-09/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-stands-by-offer-30-day-ceasefire-2025-05-07/

Israel-Arab War

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/new-gaza-aid-plans-would-increase-childrens-suffering-unicef-says-2025-05-09/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/israels-plan-evacuate-gaza-would-be-illegal-forceful-displacement-norway-iceland-2025-05-08/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/seafarers-stranded-off-yemen-port-eye-exit-after-us-houthi-ceasefire-deal-2025-05-08/

Main Subjects

Bill Gates

• https://www.reuters.com/business/bill-gates-speaks-about-plan-give-away-200-billion-worlds-poor-2025-05-08/
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf
• 28 billion on international programs
• 32 billion on health

Pakistan-India “Conflict

• https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-pakistans-history-strife-2025-05-06/
  https://www.reuters.com/world/india/one-killed-seven-injured-militant-attack-indias-kashmir-india-today-tv-says-2025-04-22/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/blast-heard-pakistans-lahore-amid-tensions-with-india-say-geo-news-reuters-2025-05-08/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/multiple-loud-explosions-heard-pakistani-kashmir-reuters-witness-2025-05-06/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/latest-developments-india-pakistan-conflict-2025-05-08/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-armed-forces-launch-multiple-attacks-along-indias-entire-western-border-2025-05-09/

This episode is focused on Fentanyl overdose deaths and the new Trump Budget

West Africa insurrections

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/surge-attacks-signals-jihadist-comeback-nigerias-northeast-2025-04-29/

Ukraine-Russia war

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-us-rare-earth-minerals-deal-8566241ea0e121a30437d845357055d8

Narcam

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/drug-overdose-deaths.htm#find-our-data

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2025/2025-cdc-reports-decline-in-us-drug-overdose-deaths.html

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/31/fact-sheet-on-intl-overdose-awareness-day-the-biden-harris-administration-announces-more-than-450-million-in-new-funding-to-support-president-bidens-unity-agenda-efforts-to-beat-t/

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/24/what-they-are-reading-in-the-states-biden-harris-administration-awards-1-5-billion-to-states-and-tribes-to-combat-overdose-epidemic/

https://www.dea.gov/

https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-holds-cabinet-meeting/659306

Trump Budget

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-resources/budget/the-presidents-fy-2026-discretionary-budget-request/

Focused on Iranian peace talks and global risk of food insecurity.

Sources:

Iran

• https://www.reuters.com/world/how-un-sanctions-iran-could-be-restored-2025-04-10/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-proposes-talks-with-european-powers-us-nuclear-negotiations-proceed-2025-04-24/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-us-resume-talks-oman-narrow-gaps-over-new-nuclear-deal-2025-04-26/

World Hunger

• https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/malnutrition-treatments-halted-ethiopia-due-underfunding-wfp-says-2025-04-22/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-funding-freeze-upends-agricultural-research-us-universities-2025-04-17/
• https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/un-agencies-food-refugees-plan-deep-cuts-funding-plummets-documents-show-2025-04-25/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/world-food-programme-reduce-food-support-sudan-due-funding-shortages-2025-04-25/

Arab-Israeli War

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-steps-up-gaza-strikes-polio-vaccination-halted-by-blockade-2025-04-22/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-fire-kills-least-26-people-gaza-hits-police-station-2025-04-24/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-airstrikes-kill-10-school-housing-displaced-families-hit-childrens-2025-04-23/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/germany-france-britain-call-israel-allow-aid-into-gaza-2025-04-23/

Russia-Ukrain War

• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/missile-that-killed-eight-russian-strike-kyiv-was-nkorean-kyiv-source-says-2025-04-24/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-accuses-zelenskiy-wrecking-peace-diplomacy-2025-04-24/

West African Conflict

• https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/benin-says-al-qaeda-affiliate-attack-killed-54-soldiers-last-week-2025-04-24/