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Oakland, CA – On Monday night Pablo Sandoval hit a home run in extra innings and received his championship ring earlier that day. The excitement definitely didn’t roll over into the next day, Sandoval was met with boo’s every time he came to bat. The A’s not only shut him down tonight but the Red Sox as well for the 9-2 victory.

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“We’ve just been in a little funk for a stretch there, but this is who we are, this is how we played last year,” said Drew Pomeranz. “We’ll just go from here now.”

 

Oakland’s offense came alive immediately scoring three runs in the first. The A’s tied their career-high with three home runs tonight for the fifth time this season. Marcus Semien got the offense going with a triple in the first followed by Josh Reddick’s RBI single. Stephen Vogt capped off the inning with a two-run homer making it a 3-0 game.

 

Pomeranz got off to a great start but had a hiccup in the first. He retired the first batter but gave up a single to Dustin Pedroia who was put out at second. Pedroia thought he could out run Coco Crisp’s arm from left field. Crisp threw to second baseman Eric Sogard before Pedroia had a chance to slide into second for the second out. David Ortiz flew out to center field to end the frame.

 

“I had seven marks on my card as far as defensive plays tonight,” Oakland’s manager Bob Melvin said. “I like that. Usually a good recipe when your starter goes deep in the game and your making good defensive plays.”

 

“They made some good defensive plays,” said Boston’s manager John Farrell. “If we take care of our end of things from the mound, obviously that’s a different game and those are completely different at-bats when you’re within a run vs eight.”

 

The A’s defense tonight was utterly outstanding compared to Monday night’s game. Crisp made a great back hand catch on Hanley Ramirez fly ball to left field. Vogt closed out the third inning when he made a sliding catch on Blake Swihart’s pop up. Boston’s starting pitcher Justin Masterson was chased off the mound when he gave up a leadoff home run to Reddick and issued a free pass to Vogt in the third.

 

Masterson lasted only 2 1/3 innings charged with six runs, six hits, one walk, one strikeout and two home runs. In his shortest stint of the season, he had only given up two homers combined in his first six starts. Masterson never had command on the mound especially when Oakland got him off track early.

 

“Clearly, he’s not right,” Farrell said of Masterson. “Whether that’s physical, whether that’s delivery-wise, the ball not coming out of his hand as he’s shown for the better part of the year. We’ve got to gather some information overnight.”

 

The A’s successfully scored in a run through four frames. Sogard’s RBI double added on another run in the second. Red Sox’s reliever Steven Wright loaded the bases in the third with a walk to Max Muncy and a single to Brett Lawrie with two outs. Sogard’s two-run single extended the Oakland’s lead 7-0. But the A’s weren’t done yet! Semien’s leadoff home run made it a 8-0 in the fourth.

 

While Boston was shutout through five innings, they scored their first run in the sixth. Pomeranz allowed his second hit and first baserunner as Crisp failed to throw out Shane Victorino on a double attempt to leadoff the inning. After retiring the next three batters, Victorino scored on Swihart’s ground out putting Boston on the board.

 

The Red Sox tried to chip away at Oakland’s lead. Pedroia led off the seventh with a single and advanced to second on Semien’s throwing error. Semien leads the Majors with eleven errors, five errors in the last four games. Mike Napoli knocked a single to right field scoring in Pedroia making it a 8-2 game. Sandoval grounded out to third baseman Lawrie to first baseman Muncy. But first base umpire, Ron Kulpa ruled Sandoval safe, the A’s challenged the call and it was overturned to end the inning.

 

Oakland snapped a season-high six-game losing streak. Four of the team’s runs came by the long ball. Vogt hit his 9th home run of the season, both Reddick and Semien hit their 6th home run of the season. Sogard drove in a season-high three runs after driving in four all season. Semien with ten multiple hit games over his last 20 games after hitting .236 over his first 15 contests. Reddick went 4-for-5 with all six of his home runs and 24 of his 25 RBI’s against right-handed pitching.

 

‘We needed it, big time,” said Vogt. “Look around the clubhouse tonight, and everybody’s smiling, everybody’s happy. We haven’t felt this way all week.”

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Recently Approved Budget Plan Favors Wealthy, Slashes Aid to Low-Income Americans

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The most significant benefits would flow to the highest earners while millions of low-income families face cuts

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By Stacy M. Brown

BlackPressUSA.com Senior National Correspondent

The new budget framework approved by Congress may result in sweeping changes to the federal safety net and tax code. The most significant benefits would flow to the highest earners while millions of low-income families face cuts. A new analysis from Yale University’s Budget Lab shows the proposals in the House’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution would lead to a drop in after-tax-and-transfer income for the poorest households while significantly boosting revenue for the wealthiest Americans. Last month, Congress passed its Concurrent Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2025 (H. Con. Res. 14), setting revenue and spending targets for the next decade. The resolution outlines $1.5 trillion in gross spending cuts and $4.5 trillion in tax reductions between FY2025 and FY2034, along with $500 billion in unspecified deficit reduction.

Congressional Committees have now been instructed to identify policy changes that align with these goals. Three of the most impactful committees—Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means—have been tasked with proposing major changes. The Agriculture Committee is charged with finding $230 billion in savings, likely through changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps. Energy and Commerce must deliver $880 billion in savings, likely through Medicaid reductions. Meanwhile, the Ways and Means Committee must craft tax changes totaling no more than $4.5 trillion in new deficits, most likely through extending provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Although the resolution does not specify precise changes, reports suggest lawmakers are eyeing steep cuts to SNAP and Medicaid benefits while seeking to make permanent tax provisions that primarily benefit high-income individuals and corporations.

To examine the potential real-world impact, Yale’s Budget Lab modeled four policy changes that align with the resolution’s goals:

  1. A 30 percent across-the-board cut in SNAP funding.
  2. A 15 percent cut in Medicaid funding.
  3. Permanent extension of the individual and estate tax cuts from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
  4. Permanent extension of business tax provisions including 100% bonus depreciation, expense of R&D, and relaxed limits on interest deductions.

Yale researchers determined that the combined effect of these policies would reduce the after-tax-and-transfer income of the bottom 20 percent of earners by 5 percent in the calendar year 2026. Households in the middle would see a modest 0.6 percent gain. However, the top five percent of earners would experience a 3 percent increase in their after-tax-and-transfer income.

Moreover, the analysis concluded that more than 100 percent of the net fiscal benefit from these changes would go to households in the top 20 percent of the income distribution. This happens because lower-income groups would lose more in government benefits than they would gain from any tax cuts. At the same time, high-income households would enjoy significant tax reductions with little or no loss in benefits.

“These results indicate a shift in resources away from low-income tax units toward those with higher incomes,” the Budget Lab report states. “In particular, making the TCJA provisions permanent for high earners while reducing spending on SNAP and Medicaid leads to a regressive overall effect.” The report notes that policymakers have floated a range of options to reduce SNAP and Medicaid outlays, such as lowering per-beneficiary benefits or tightening eligibility rules. While the Budget Lab did not assess each proposal individually, the modeling assumes legislation consistent with the resolution’s instructions. “The burden of deficit reduction would fall largely on those least able to bear it,” the report concluded.

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A Threat to Pre-emptive Pardons

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — it was a possibility that the preemptive pardons would not happen because of the complicated nature of that never-before-enacted process.

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By April Ryan

President Trump is working to undo the traditional presidential pardon powers by questioning the Biden administration’s pre-emptive pardons issued just days before January 20, 2025. President Trump is seeking retribution against the January 6th House Select Committee. The Trump Justice Department has been tasked to find loopholes to overturn the pardons that could lead to legal battles for the Republican and Democratic nine-member committee. Legal scholars and those closely familiar with the pardon process worked with the Biden administration to ensure the preemptive pardons would stand against any retaliatory knocks from the incoming Trump administration. A source close to the Biden administration’s pardons said, in January 2025, “I think pardons are all valid.  The power is unreviewable by the courts.”

However, today that same source had a different statement on the nuances of the new Trump pardon attack. That attack places questions about Biden’s use of an autopen for the pardons. The Trump argument is that Biden did not know who was pardoned as he did not sign the documents. Instead, the pardons were allegedly signed by an autopen.  The same source close to the pardon issue said this week, “unless he [Trump] can prove Biden didn’t know what was being done in his name. All of this is in uncharted territory. “ Meanwhile, an autopen is used to make automatic or remote signatures. It has been used for decades by public figures and celebrities.

Months before the Biden pardon announcement, those in the Biden White House Counsel’s Office, staff, and the Justice Department were conferring tirelessly around the clock on who to pardon and how. The concern for the preemptive pardons was how to make them irrevocable in an unprecedented process. At one point in the lead-up to the preemptive pardon releases, it was a possibility that the preemptive pardons would not happen because of the complicated nature of that never-before-enacted process. President Trump began the threat of an investigation for the January 6th Select  Committee during the Hill proceedings. Trump has threatened members with investigation or jail.

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Reaction to The Education EO

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Meanwhile, the new Education EO jeopardizes funding for students seeking a higher education. Duncan states, PellGrants are in jeopardy after servicing “6.5 million people” giving them a chance to go to college.

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There are plenty of negative reactions to President Donald Trump’s latest Executive Order abolishing the Department of Education. As Democrats call yesterday’s action performative, it would take an act of Congress for the Education Department to close permanently. “This blatantly unconstitutional executive order is just another piece of evidence that Trump has absolutely no respect for the Constitution,” said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) who is the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee. “By dismantling ED, President Trump is implementing his own philosophy on education, which can be summed up in his own words, ‘I love the poorly educated.’ I am adamantly opposed to this reckless action, said Rep. Bobby Scott who is the most senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee.

Morgan State University President Dr. David Wilson chimed in saying “I’m deeply concerned about efforts to shift federal oversight in education back to the states, particularly regarding equity, justice, and fairness. History has shown us what happens when states are left unchecked—Black and poor children are too often denied access to the high-quality education they deserve. In 1979 then President Jimmy Carter signed a law creating the Department of Education. Arne Duncan, former Obama Education Secretary, reminds us that both Democratic and Republican presidents have kept education a non-political issue until now. However, Duncan stressed Republican presidents have contributed greatly to moving education forward in this country.

During a CNN interview this week Duncan said during the Civil War President Abraham “Lincoln created the land grant system” for colleges like Tennessee State University. “President Ford brought in IDEA.” And “Nixon signed Pell Grants into law.” In 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush which increased federal oversight of schools through standardized testing. Meanwhile, the new Education EO jeopardizes funding for students seeking higher education. Duncan states, PellGrants are in jeopardy after servicing “6.5 million people” giving them a chance to go to college. Wilson details, “that 40 percent of all college students rely on Pell Grants and student loans.”

Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC) says this Trump action “impacts students pursuing higher education and threatens 26 million students across the country, taking billions away from their educational futures. Meanwhile, During the president’s speech in the East Room of the White House Thursday, Trump criticized Baltimore City, and its math test scores with critical words. Governor West Moore, who is opposed to the EO action, said about dismantling the Department of Education, “Leadership means lifting people up, not punching them down.”

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