New Mexico Downwinders Celebrate 'Bittersweet' Victory in Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill'

Compensation for Utah downwinders renewed, expanded with passage of 'big beautiful bill'

A year after a federal program compensating individuals impacted by exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining during the Cold War expired, it has been renewed with

New Mexico downwinders celebrate 'bittersweet' victory in Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

Trump's tax and spending package makes New Mexico atomic-test downwinders eligible for federal compensation for the first time.

‘A real pest on this’: Hawley delivers on relentless pledge to get radiation victims renewed aid in Big Beautiful Bill

Jimmy Stewart’s character in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ends up fainting on the Senate floor after winning a battle for what’s right. But his character may have had it easier than Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who waged a years-long fight in both chambers of Congress to revive and expand the 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) – which, as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill, will now provide aid to today’s continued victims of WWII and…