August 28, 2026 - Gov Brief Today

What Happened Today – August 27, 2026

August 28, 2026 by George Bounacos

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz seated at a Healthcare Advisory Committee meeting

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shown with Medicare chief Mehmet Oz in May, wrote Samoa's leader in 2019 seeking its MMR data, contradicting his sworn testimony to Congress. (Official HHS photo)

Twenty masked federal agents held off a tribe’s police so contractors could start drilling for Donald Trump’s border wall. They came onto the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona at four in the morning Tuesday with a Border Patrol SWAT team and drill trucks to work three sites. The Nation had posted No Trespassing signs two … Read more