The trial of a mother accused of killing her three children has wrapped its second week. Two psychiatrists who treated Lindsay Clancy before her children’s death testified in court today. NBC News’ Steven Romo and legal analyst Misty Marris break down the doctors’ testimony.
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$2,358 per person.
It’s a number that shows the impacts of President Donald Trump’s destructive economic agenda and bigoted anti-immigrant agenda in stark relief.
According to a new tool launched by the Economic Policy Institute, that’s the whopping amount American taxpayers are shelling out on average to fund Trump’s mass deportation push.
The progressive think tank’s new “Cost of Deportations Calculator” references the nearly $270 billion that Congress and federal agencies under Trump have already committed to immigration enforcement. The calculator basically shows the tremendous cost of Americans effectively underwriting the president’s depraved war on immigrants. (If you’re interested in getting wonky, check out the methodology here).
On its website, the institute lists various things that this huge pot of money could be going toward instead. For example, the organization estimated the money could fund 931,963 school teachers, more than 1 million firefighters or just under 12 million Americans on Medicaid.
And the calculator also allows users to cycle through all of the nation’s counties to get estimates about the taxpayer burden that Trump’s mass deportation agenda is placing on communities across the country.
Taken together, it’s a powerful tool in that it stands to remind Americans — who have already already shown broad discontent with the GOP’s handling of immigration and the economy — that the Trump regime’s anti-immigrant crusade comes with massive costs.
Human costs, primarily — as the growing death toll well proves. But financial ones, also.
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President Donald Trump met with ex-reality TV star and failed Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt during his trip to that city this week, a White House official told MS NOW.
The meeting, which has not previously been reported, came after the president met with Pratt and his young son in the Oval Office in July.
The purpose and length of the meeting were not immediately clear, but it was among several engagements Trump did while in LA for less than a day.
In an Instagram post on Friday, Pratt shared photos of himself and Trump sitting at a dining table at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles, writing that they spoke about a 25% federal film tax credit “to bring back Hollywood” and other “important topics.” Similar tax credits have bipartisan support in California.
Pratt gained Trump’s support and that of several key MAGA allies during his surprise mayoral campaign, as MS NOW previously reported, with Republicans drawing parallels between the two because of their shared backgrounds in reality television and Pratt’s ability to draw eyeballs on social media with attention-grabbing artificial intelligence videos that supercharged his campaign.
But the self-described former reality TV villain sought to distance himself from partisan — and national — politics. He repeatedly vowed that he would work with anyone regardless of party and that he had no political aspirations other than restoring LA to its “golden age” after the deadly Palisades fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed 6,800 homes and buildings. Pratt’s family home was among those that burned to the ground.
Republicans have been floating Pratt as a future presidential contender after his relative success in the LA mayoral race. Despite having no political experience and being a registered Republican in deep-blue Los Angeles, Pratt finished with more than a quarter of the vote — 3.5 percentage points behind Democratic Councilmember Nithya Raman and nearly 9 points behind Democratic incumbent Karen Bass. Raman and Bass are now heading to a November runoff.
Pratt conceded the race in a combative video in which he derided, and appeared to threaten, the women who had finished ahead of him. Contrary to Pratt’s pledge that he would leave the city if he lost, he suggested he will instead stay put in LA — a promise he appears to have kept.
After Pratt’s loss, Trump encouraged him not to “go away quietly” and pushed baseless claims that the election was “rigged” because of California’s historically long vote-counting process. Pratt seemed to heed the president’s advice, continuing to post social media critiques about Democrats in LA. The same day that he publicized his Oval Office meeting with Trump, Pratt also announced the launch of The War Foundation, an initiative that aims to “restore common sense and roll back the long march of socialism through our vital institutions.” Records show it is a nonprofit registered with the California Secretary of State on June 24 by Pratt’s former campaign staffer Briana Bilbray.
Spokespeople for Pratt did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment Thursday afternoon.
Trump has evolved from knowing very little about Pratt to becoming one of his biggest cheerleaders. “I don’t know him,” Trump initially told reporters in May. “I assume he probably supports me. I hear he’s a big MAGA person.”
When Pratt visited the Oval Office last month, Ambassador Monica Crowley, who organizes state visits for foreign dignitaries as Trump’s chief of protocol, said on X that Pratt “may very well be on the other side of that desk someday.”
This story has been updated to include details included in an Instagram post from Pratt summarizing the meeting.
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