Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly remade federal vaccine advisory panel will examine the cumulative effect of the childhood and adolescent vaccine schedule, the panel’s chair said Wednesday.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will also weigh recommendations for vaccines that have long been on the market, including those for measles and hepatitis B.
Martin Kulldorff made the announcement at the start of th...
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More than 30 celebrities come out against SNAP, Medicaid cuts in GOP megabill
More than two dozen members of the entertainment industry issued an open letter to members of Congress on Wednesday urging them to reject sweeping cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid in the GOP's "big, beautiful" spending bill.
The open letter, released by Feeding America, was signed by 31 people, including high-profile Hollywood stars like Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Michelle Williams, Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Sheryl Crow, ...
Republican Lisa Murkowski on Trump’s America and the ‘intensity on the security of our democracy’
The Alaska senator, who helped deal Trump’s first big legislative setback, believes there can be only so much fear that Americans can handle
Late one night about six months into Donald Trump’s first term, John McCain stepped on to the Senate floor and with a dramatic thumbs-down gesture dealt the president his first major legislative setback by defeating an attempt by his fellow Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
It was the last major political effort of the Arizona...
Trump administration makes sweeping changes to ObamaCare, ends ‘Dreamer’ coverage
The Trump administration is shortening ObamaCare’s annual open enrollment period and ending the law's coverage of immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children, according to a final rule announced Friday.
The Biden administration made it easier and more affordable to sign up for Affordable Care Act plans, causing enrollment to swell to an all-time high. The Trump administration claims those moves opened a wave of fraudulent enrollment that’s costing taxpayers billi...
To fulfill their promises to voters, Republicans must govern like Democrats
Say this about Democrats: They know how to pass their agenda much faster than Republicans.
Four-and-a-half months into the second Trump administration, Republicans have achieved next to nothing legislatively, despite its total control of Washington.
Sure, President Trump has issued a slew of executive orders, but all of them will be repealed the moment a Democrat wins the White House. Laws are what really matter and stand the test of time. And despite endless talk a...
CBO: Nearly 11 million people will be uninsured if GOP megabill becomes law
Nearly 11 million people would lose health insurance under the House Republican tax bill, mostly due to cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The CBO's latest report estimates that 10.9 million people would be uninsured over the next decade if the spending package, which includes much of President Trump's legislative agenda, were enacted.
That total includes an estimated 1.4 million ...
‘Pro-worker priorities’? Trump’s budget offers the exact opposite | Steven Greenhouse
The ‘big, beautiful’ measure going through Congress would cut health, food and education benefits – and offer a huge boost to the richest
With Donald Trump pushing hard to give big tax cuts to the rich and do huge favors for crypto billionaires, it was jarring to see a photo of a Trump aide carrying a sign that said: “President Trump’s Pro-Worker Priorities”. The aide was about to place the sign on Trump’s lectern; it mentioned such “pro-worker priorities” as ending federal taxes on ...
Trump to speak to Putin and Zelenskyy about Ukraine ceasefire – US politics live
Unclear what US president can achieve after direct talks between Russia and Ukraine ended without conclusion
US advocacy groups are waging an intensive campaign to protect Medicaid and Obamacare from Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”, after House Republicans proposed an $880bn cut that could leave an estimated 13 million Americans without health insurance.
The House bill left Republicans’ most controversial proposals on the table, but has divided Senate Repu...
Pritzker: Democrats ‘can’t be a party of do nothing’
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) called on his fellow Democrats to stop being “a party of do nothing” and instead take bolder action to counter Republicans' actions.
Pritzker joined MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” for an interview Monday evening to expand on the message he delivered to New Hampshire Democrats over the weekend, calling for mass mobilization and protests to push back against the Trump administration.
“That was specifically about what we, as a Democratic P...
US supreme court hears challenge to Obamacare free preventive healthcare
At issue is constitutionality of taskforce that decides which services insurers must cover without cost to patients
The US supreme court on Monday heard arguments in a case that could threaten Americans’ access to free preventive healthcare services under the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.
At issue is the constitutionality of the US preventive services taskforce, which plays a critical role in determining which preventive services health insurers must cover ...