Trump officials asked Medicare to help track undocumented immigrants using a health database tied to Social Security numbers.
Trump admin proposes 30% cut to health budgets, slashing HIV prevention, mental health care, and chronic disease programs.
Trump exempts nearly 70 coal plants from mercury and toxin pollution limits, including nation’s top polluter.
HHS officials told Congress they don’t know how many workers were fired under Trump’s mass layoff plan.
Musk’s DOGE hijacks computerized federal grant system, blocking agencies from posting $500B in awards.
RFK Jr. claims measles is plateauing as cases double last year’s total, top 700, and spread to six states with three dead.
RFK Jr. plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water, echoing Utah ban and triggering EPA review.
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.
Tuesday’s HHS layoffs disrupted key safety hotlines for food, cosmetics, and infant health as RFK Jr. restructured agency.
Peer-reviewed study last week shows NIH cancer breakthrough helping 1 in 4 patients, but Trump-era layoffs are delaying treatment rollout.
Kennedy attends Texas funeral for unvaccinated 8-year-old who died of measles, urges MMR vaccination as 642 U.S. cases span 22 states.
Rubio-led State Department fires U.S. aid workers while they conduct earthquake relief in Myanmar, where over 3,000 have died.
Chemical lobby races through EPA’s ‘polluter portal’ as two trade groups ask Trump to exempt all toxic air polluters from Biden-era rules.
Judge says she’ll temporarily block Trump’s $11B public health cuts, with full injunction hearing still ahead.
Senate confirms TV’s ‘Dr. Oz’ to lead Medicare and Medicaid, overseeing coverage for 160 million people, in party-line vote.
Measles outbreaks spread across five states as U.S. sees more cases in 3 months than in all of last year.
Top Trump FDA official pauses Novavax Covid-19 vaccine approval in rare intervention overriding staff scientists.
The day after firing 2,400 workers, Trump administration orders CDC to cut $2.9 billion in contracts, slashing 35 percent of outside spending.
Scientists and labor unions sue NIH over Trump-era purge of DEI, vaccine, and Covid research, citing $2.4 billion in canceled grants.
Acting Social Security chief faces resignation calls over rescinded order that made Maine the only state requiring in-person newborn registration at one of just eight federal offices.
Thousands fired at FDA, NIH, and CDC, HHS workers learn of layoffs when badges stop working or by email.
23 states sue Trump administration for cutting $11 billion in public health funding tied to COVID, mental health, and addiction.
Trump admin withholds $27.5M in congressionally approved health funds from Planned Parenthood, citing DEI and care for undocumented patients.
Top FDA vaccine official who helped develop COVID shots resigns after refusing to echo RFK Jr.’s “misinformation and lies.”
Texas-led measles outbreak spreads to four states as U.S. cases top 500, driven by unvaccinated clusters.
Ohio health officials confirm 10 measles cases as the national total hits 378 in 18 states, with Kansas reporting 23 infections.
Federal prosecutors are investigating a GSK claim that Pfizer delayed announcing its COVID vaccine success in 2020 to avoid helping Trump before the election.
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.
Disgraced anti-vaccine activist who has falsely posed as physician is hired by Trump’s HHS to “prove” debunked autism link using CDC data.
Trump nominates GOP attorney with history of financial misconduct and anti-abortion crusades to oversee $1 trillion in health fraud investigations.
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.
Trump administration told researchers to cut sexual orientation data from rural smoking study, prompting withdrawal from federally published health journal.
DHS shutters watchdog offices monitoring migrant kids, civil rights, detention conditions—calls them roadblocks to immigration enforcement.
