On Friday,, July fourth , Trump is scheduled to sign into law his so-called big beautiful bill which eliminates health care and food assistance for millions of Americans, adds $150 billion more for the military, and triples the budget for Trump’s mass deportation machine, making ICE the largest police force in the country. All of this to give billionaires a massive tax cut and add more than three trillion to the national debt. 

Three days before the House vote, as the Senate was still debating, faith leaders were arrested on the street outside the capitol as they carried symbolic coffins, representing the tens of thousands expected to die in the US each year because of   the new law. 

For this hour, we will hear from the Rev. William barber and other faith leaders, Medicaid recipients, and policy analysts speaking truth to power about the budget, which is the biggest wealth transfer to the wealthy in U.S. History.

“On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital” gives a voice to the voiceless 99 percent at the heart of American empire. The award-winning, weekly hour, produced and hosted by Esther Iverem, covers social justice activism about local, national and international issues, with a special emphasis on militarization and war, the police state, the corporate state, environmental justice and the left edge of culture and media. The show is heard on three dozen stations across the United States, on podcast, and is archived on the world wide web at https://onthegroundshow.org/  Please support us on Patreon or Paypal. Links for all ways to support are on our website or at Esther Iverem’s Linktree: https://linktr.ee/esther_iverem