Daily Headlines: Health Senate Republicans use controversial Congressional Review Act to overturn California’s ban on new gas-only car sales by 2035 despite warnings the move violates congressional rules and could worsen air pollution. May 23, 2025 View Details Trump claims autism “has to be artificially induced” while citing inflated statistics at MAHA event. May 23, 2025 View Details Kennedy’s MAHA commission report blames corporate influence and environmental toxins for childhood disease crisis. May 23, 2025 View Details House passes Trump’s $2.3 trillion tax cut and spending bill by one vote despite CBO projections that 8.6 million people would lose health coverage. May 23, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed federal judge strikes down EEOC regulations requiring employers to provide time off and accommodations for abortions. May 22, 2025 View Details RFK family foundation awards Maine Gov. Mills human rights prize for defying transgender policies of administration where RFK Jr. serves as HHS Secretary. May 20, 2025 View Details Trump falsely claims Biden has ‘Stage 9’ cancer and delayed diagnosis disclosure as part of White House cognitive decline coverup May 20, 2025 View Details Joe Biden diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. May 19, 2025 View Details FDA grants Novavax COVID-19 vaccine full approval but restricts use to adults over 65 and higher-risk individuals, reflecting Trump administration’s vaccine skepticism. May 18, 2025 View Details FBI declares Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing an “intentional act of terrorism” that killed one person and injured four others. May 18, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed judge blocks Trump administration’s attempt to cut $11 billion in congressional public health funding despite HHS claims pandemic is over. May 17, 2025 View Details U.S. measles cases surge to 1,024 across 30 states as CDC reports 13% hospitalization rate despite disease being preventable with vaccination. May 17, 2025 View Details VA reinstates mandatory overtime for claims processors to address 200,000-claim backlog while simultaneously planning to cut 80,000 jobs. May 16, 2025 View Details DeSantis signs bill banning fluoride in Florida’s public water supplies, calling it “forced medication” despite health experts’ warnings. May 16, 2025 View Details Montana judge strikes down ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors as unconstitutional. May 15, 2025 View Details Kennedy claims he is protecting Head Start funding weeks after Trump budget sought to eliminate the program. May 15, 2025 View Details PA Gov Shapiro warns rural hospitals will close and hundreds of thousands of people would lose health insurance under GOP Medicaid cuts. May 15, 2025 View Details Trump’s surgeon general nominee promoted psychedelic therapy and credited mushrooms with helping her find love. May 15, 2025 View Details Kennedy tells Congress “people shouldn’t take medical advice from me” despite being the nation’s top health official. May 15, 2025 View Details EPA plans to weaken drinking water rules by rescinding PFAS limits. May 14, 2025 View Details NIOSH director and key teams reinstated ahead of RFK Jr.’s congressional hearing on HHS layoffs, but major worker safety programs remain shuttered. May 14, 2025 View Details IL Gov Pritzker blocks federal access to personal autism health data two days after Kennedy announces plan to probe condition’s causes. May 13, 2025 View Details House Republicans propose $900 billion Medicaid cuts requiring work for benefits and $35 copays per visit. May 12, 2025 View Details Trump revives previously court-blocked “most favored nation” drug pricing plan claiming 30-80% cuts despite unclear Medicare/Medicaid coverage scope. May 12, 2025 View Details North Dakota reports first measles cases since 2011, becoming 11th state in current U.S. outbreak. May 8, 2025 View Details FDA holds talks with OpenAI about using AI in drug evaluations, using cderGPT project. May 8, 2025 View Details HHS to launch autism data platform after backlash over registry plan. May 8, 2025 View Details Trump administration accused of defying court order by cutting NIH research grants. May 8, 2025 View Details Trump taps wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means for surgeon general after first nominee withdraws over credential scrutiny. May 8, 2025 View Details FDA names COVID policy critic Vinay Prasad to lead vaccines division after former chief quit amid RFK Jr. clashes. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration ends CDC infection control panel, halting updates to national hospital guidelines. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump officials and Pelosi press Jordan’s king to honor pledge to treat sick Gazan children. May 6, 2025 View Details Trump administration halts funding for ‘gain-of-function’ research that alters viruses. May 6, 2025 View Details Trump administration halts air-quality monitoring at all national parks, citing contract disputes. May 6, 2025 View Details Trump administration tells judge states have no standing to sue over mifepristone access. May 6, 2025 View Details 20 attorneys general sue to block 25% workforce cuts at HHS under Trump admin. May 6, 2025 View Details FEMA ends door-to-door disaster outreach as Trump administration shifts aid responsibilities to states. May 6, 2025 View Details Researcher who pushed hydroxychloroquine during pandemic returns to HHS in Trump administration. May 5, 2025 View Details More than 15,000 USDA employees have resigned in response to Trump administration offers, briefing reveals. May 4, 2025 View Details Trump administration settles lawsuit and restores Maine school meal funds after state refused to ban trans girls from girls’ sports. May 3, 2025 View Details Trump EPA dismantles science office, reshuffles 1,500 staff in major reorganization. May 3, 2025 View Details Trump budget slashes NIH, CDC, and chronic disease programs in sweeping cuts to public health and research. May 3, 2025 View Details RFK Jr. falsely claims measles vaccine contains fetal tissue and asks CDC for vitamin-based treatments. May 3, 2025 View Details Trump administration backs off plan to defund Head Start but cuts raise fears of backdoor elimination. May 3, 2025 View Details Unsigned HHS report commissioned by Trump promotes psychological treatment over gender-affirming care for trans youth. May 2, 2025 View Details Trump budget proposes 23% cut to domestic spending, 13% boost to defense, and elimination of dozens of social programs. May 2, 2025 View Details One day after HHS cut $1B in school mental health grants, agency mistakenly shares list of 150 child welfare research grants marked for termination. May 2, 2025 View Details Kennedy halts Ebola and deadly virus research at top federal lab. May 1, 2025 View Details Kennedy redirects $500 million in COVID funds to launch universal vaccine project with placebo testing mandate. May 1, 2025 View Details Trump administration ends $1 billion in school mental health grants, citing conflict with Biden-era priorities. May 1, 2025 View Details “Your Local Epidemiologist” Katelyn Jetelina offers webinar on influencing health policy this Friday. April 30, 2025 View Details FL legislature passes bill banning local water fluoridation and restricting plant-based foods from using milk or meat labels. April 30, 2025 View Details HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urges parents to “do your own research” on vaccines, despite overseeing the nation’s vaccine safety. April 30, 2025 View Details Trump administration orders Penn to reverse Lia Thomas records and apologize or lose $175 million in federal funding. April 29, 2025 View Details Trump administration slows Covid vaccine approvals by requiring new trials and shifting FDA standards. April 29, 2025 View Details Pentagon hiring for sexual assault and suicide prevention stalled by Trump budget cuts April 29, 2025 View Details HHS reverses course, restores funding for landmark Women’s Health Initiative women’s-health study after backlash April 26, 2025 View Details USDA withdraws Biden-era proposal to cap salmonella in raw poultry products. April 26, 2025 View Details US health officials push to phase out artificial food dyes by 2026, but won’t require it yet. April 23, 2025 View Details DOJ cancels grants for gun-violence prevention, addiction programs, and victim advocacy under Trump directive. April 23, 2025 View Details NIH to launch autism registry and share private medical data for RFK Jr.’s study criticized as stigmatizing and unfounded. April 23, 2025 View Details Kansas reports 37 measles cases linked to Texas and NM outbreaks; governor urges vaccinations. April 23, 2025 View Details House Oversight Chair James Comer refers former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for criminal charges over COVID nursing home cover-up. April 22, 2025 View Details Montana confirms first measles cases in 30+ years; health officials hope high vaccination rates will limit spread. April 22, 2025 View Details RFK Jr. suggests compensating families of people with severe autism, saying his comments apply to 25% and linking the condition to environmental toxins. April 21, 2025 View Details Trump administration to cut another $1 billion from Harvard health research funding after university rejects White House demands. April 21, 2025 View Details Trump’s DOJ sends threats to medical journals, demanding answers over ‘partisan’ science. April 19, 2025 View Details Trump replaces COVID data website with page blaming Fauci and China, deletes info on vaccines and treatment. April 19, 2025 View Details Top NIH nutrition researcher retires early over censorship under RFK Jr.’s leadership at HHS. April 18, 2025 View Details Trump officials fired 43 NIH science advisers—38 of them women or people of color—in a mass purge with no explanation. April 17, 2025 View Details Trump officials asked Medicare to help track undocumented immigrants using a health database tied to Social Security numbers. April 17, 2025 View Details Trump admin proposes 30% cut to health budgets, slashing HIV prevention, mental health care, and chronic disease programs. April 17, 2025 View Details USDA changes position, backs Arkansas plan to ban soda and candy from food stamps. April 16, 2025 View Details Trump exempts nearly 70 coal plants from mercury and toxin pollution limits, including nation’s top polluter. April 16, 2025 View Details HHS systems at risk after DOGE-backed purge guts cybersecurity staff April 15, 2025 View Details Commerce Department opens national security probe into pharma imports, setting up potential tariffs. April 15, 2025 View Details CDC lays off entire cruise outbreak team as infected ship docks and norovirus spikes in Florida. April 13, 2025 View Details HHS officials told Congress they don’t know how many workers were fired under Trump’s mass layoff plan. April 13, 2025 View Details Trump budget would eliminate Head Start, ending preschool and child care for low-income families. April 13, 2025 View Details Miami-Dade mayor vetoes fluoride ban, defying RFK Jr. and Trump-aligned health officials. April 12, 2025 View Details FDA staff walk out as RFK Jr. accuses agency of being ‘sock puppets’ and claims Deep State is real. April 12, 2025 View Details Social Security slashes regional staff and moves all public updates to Musk-owned X posts. April 12, 2025 View Details Trump moves to cut Maine’s K-12 school funding over a handful of transgender athletes. April 12, 2025 View Details Musk’s DOGE hijacks computerized federal grant system, blocking agencies from posting $500B in awards. April 12, 2025 View Details RFK Jr. claims measles is plateauing as cases double last year’s total, top 700, and spread to six states with three dead. April 12, 2025 View Details Kennedy says HHS autism probe will identify cause by September, echoing debunked vaccine claims. April 11, 2025 View Details FDA reverses Trump’s telework ban after resignations and layoffs cripple drug approvals. April 10, 2025 View Details Oz pushes AI avatars to replace doctors and nurses in first Medicare town hall. April 9, 2025 View Details Trump threatens drug tariff as trade rep brags about ‘running up the score’ on Australia. April 9, 2025 View Details Texas measles outbreak hits 505 cases across 10 counties with 2 children dead. April 9, 2025 View Details Maine sues Trump admin for stopping school lunch funding, calls federal action “blatantly illegal” April 8, 2025 View Details RFK Jr. plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water, echoing Utah ban and triggering EPA review. April 8, 2025 View Details Trump admin kills final U.S. food aid in Middle East after Musk ally overrides Rubio, UN warns cuts endanger refugees in Syria, Yemen, Jordan, and Lebanon. April 8, 2025 View Details Tuesday’s HHS layoffs disrupted key safety hotlines for food, cosmetics, and infant health as RFK Jr. restructured agency. April 7, 2025 View Details Peer-reviewed study last week shows NIH cancer breakthrough helping 1 in 4 patients, but Trump-era layoffs are delaying treatment rollout. April 7, 2025 View Details Kennedy attends Texas funeral for unvaccinated 8-year-old who died of measles, urges MMR vaccination as 642 U.S. cases span 22 states. April 7, 2025 View Details Rubio-led State Department fires U.S. aid workers while they conduct earthquake relief in Myanmar, where over 3,000 have died. April 6, 2025 View Details NIH plans new autism research as Trump and Kennedy revive vaccine skepticism. April 5, 2025 View Details Chemical lobby races through EPA’s ‘polluter portal’ as two trade groups ask Trump to exempt all toxic air polluters from Biden-era rules. April 5, 2025 View Details Kennedy says 20% of HHS layoffs were mistakes but claims he always planned to get some wrong. April 4, 2025 View Details Judge says she’ll temporarily block Trump’s $11B public health cuts, with full injunction hearing still ahead. April 4, 2025 View Details Senate confirms TV’s ‘Dr. Oz’ to lead Medicare and Medicaid, overseeing coverage for 160 million people, in party-line vote. April 4, 2025 View Details Measles outbreaks spread across five states as U.S. sees more cases in 3 months than in all of last year. April 4, 2025 View Details Top Trump FDA official pauses Novavax Covid-19 vaccine approval in rare intervention overriding staff scientists. April 3, 2025 View Details The day after firing 2,400 workers, Trump administration orders CDC to cut $2.9 billion in contracts, slashing 35 percent of outside spending. April 3, 2025 View Details Scientists and labor unions sue NIH over Trump-era purge of DEI, vaccine, and Covid research, citing $2.4 billion in canceled grants. April 3, 2025 View Details Acting Social Security chief faces resignation calls over rescinded order that made Maine the only state requiring in-person newborn registration at one of just eight federal offices. April 3, 2025 View Details Thousands fired at FDA, NIH, and CDC, HHS workers learn of layoffs when badges stop working or by email. April 2, 2025 View Details 23 states sue Trump administration for cutting $11 billion in public health funding tied to COVID, mental health, and addiction. April 2, 2025 View Details Trump admin withholds $27.5M in congressionally approved health funds from Planned Parenthood, citing DEI and care for undocumented patients. April 1, 2025 View Details Top FDA vaccine official who helped develop COVID shots resigns after refusing to echo RFK Jr.’s “misinformation and lies.” March 29, 2025 View Details Texas-led measles outbreak spreads to four states as U.S. cases top 500, driven by unvaccinated clusters. March 29, 2025 View Details Ohio health officials confirm 10 measles cases as the national total hits 378 in 18 states, with Kansas reporting 23 infections. March 27, 2025 View Details Federal prosecutors are investigating a GSK claim that Pfizer delayed announcing its COVID vaccine success in 2020 to avoid helping Trump before the election. March 27, 2025 View Details Trump administration plans to end U.S. funding for international child vaccines and cut global aid programs, despite warnings of 1.2 million child deaths without support. March 27, 2025 View Details Disgraced anti-vaccine activist who has falsely posed as physician is hired by Trump’s HHS to “prove” debunked autism link using CDC data. March 26, 2025 View Details Trump nominates GOP attorney with history of financial misconduct and anti-abortion crusades to oversee $1 trillion in health fraud investigations. March 26, 2025 View Details RFK Jr. pulls $11.4 billion in CDC COVID funding, declares the pandemic over as 8 senior officials exit and 92,000 Americans die in the past two years. March 26, 2025 View Details Trump administration told researchers to cut sexual orientation data from rural smoking study, prompting withdrawal from federally published health journal. March 23, 2025 View Details DHS shutters watchdog offices monitoring migrant kids, civil rights, detention conditions—calls them roadblocks to immigration enforcement. March 22, 2025 View Details Trump moves student loans to Small Business Administration and children’s special needs programs to HHS after ordering McMahon to close Education Department. March 22, 2025 View Details Trump administration considers drastic cuts to HIV prevention funding, CDC reorganization looms March 19, 2025 View Details Trump’s EPA moves to eliminate science research office, cut 1,000+ experts, critics call it illegal March 19, 2025 View Details HHS removes Surgeon General’s gun violence advisory, erasing public health crisis warning. March 18, 2025 View Details NIH removes Fauci from scientist mural despite his five-decade role leading HIV and COVID efforts. March 16, 2025 View Details Johns Hopkins Univ. has begun laying off more than 2,000 workers after the WH cut USAID funding for programs it administers. March 14, 2025 View Details The WH withdrew its CDC nominee, former FL Rep. and physician Dave Weldon, who supports the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism and other conditions. March 14, 2025 View Details The USDA canceled $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to buy locally sourced food. March 12, 2025 View Details Federal Judge Amir Ali ordered the White House to provide a status report by Friday on unpaid invoices to relief groups for work done before Feb. 13. March 12, 2025 View Details The Trump administration is proposing to shorten the Affordable Care Act enrollment period and eliminate some subsidies that lower costs. March 11, 2025 View Details HHS Secretary Kennedy blamed a deadly measles outbreak on poor diet and overall health. March 11, 2025 View Details NIH will cancel or cut back grants studying vaccine hesitancy or how to increase acceptance. March 11, 2025 View Details Secretary of State Marco Rubio says 83% of USAID’s programs have been eliminated, with the State Department taking over the rest. March 11, 2025 View Details NIH’s National Cancer Institute must flag all communications and research containing up to 23 terms, including vaccines, fluoride, autism, and peanut allergies. March 11, 2025 View Details 80,000 HHS employees offered a $25K job buyout. March 9, 2025 View Details FEMA cancels National Fire Academy classes days before new training group set to begin. March 9, 2025 View Details NOAA ordered to cut another 1,000 workers, bringing total reductions to 20% of its workforce. March 9, 2025 View Details CDC to study potential vaccine-autism links despite no evidence of connection. March 8, 2025 View Details USDA eliminated two independent science committees advising on food safety issues. March 8, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump admin from cutting NIH funding. March 7, 2025 View Details Cong. Budget Office: GOP budget targets require Medicare or Medicaid cuts. March 7, 2025 View Details Leaked memo: Department of Veterans Affairs to fire 76K workers. March 7, 2025 View Details NOAA cancels lease for its main forecast center and a radar lab. March 5, 2025 View Details United Nations’ WFP closes Johannesburg hub after Trump aid cuts, shifts its hub 2,500 miles away to Nairobi. March 5, 2025 View Details Kennedy halts public comment on new health rules, ending 54-year policy. March 1, 2025 View Details After firing 1,000 FEMA employees, Trump saw over a dozen senior executives leave and has threatened to disband the disaster relief agency. February 28, 2025 View Details One day after Elon Musk told the Cabinet that USAID’s Ebola programs were restored, several organizations—including UNICEF, which had been working with the U.S. in Africa—were terminated. February 28, 2025 View Details Fired USAID employees and HIV advocates protested in the Capitol including a “die-in”. Police arrested 20 people. February 27, 2025 View Details Kennedy downplayed the SW measles outbreak, where one child is dead. He says 18 hospitalized are quarantined—hospitals contradict him. February 27, 2025 View Details Kennedy canceled the CDC conference to plan next season’s flu vaccine. February 27, 2025 View Details Trump slashes 90% of foreign aid contracts, $60 billion cut. February 27, 2025 View Details The first CDC vaccine safety meeting of the administration was postponed February 25, 2025 View Details Hundreds rallied at HHS for “Fund Don’t Freeze” protesting Musk’s DOGE and billions cut from public health funding February 25, 2025 View Details Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued guidance defining only two human sexes and barring trans women from women’s sports February 25, 2025 View Details NIH fires 1,000+ employees by email on Saturday-cuts hit medical device safety, ACA oversight February 24, 2025 View Details CDC, FDA ordered to add anti-trans language to restored websites February 24, 2025 View Details The CDC after a 3 week Trump-ordered pause reports vet caring for cattle were unknowingly infected with H5N1 February 24, 2025 View Details Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., named HHS Secretary despite vaccine denialism and conspiracy theories February 24, 2025 View Details The NIH announced that it would slash biomedical research grants to only cover 15% admin costs February 23, 2025 View Details Fed Health Websites Purge Online Data February 17, 2025 View Details
