Two USDA officials overseeing food aid programs leave for HHS during shutdown, leaving agency without permanent leader as SNAP benefits lapse Saturday.
More than two dozen Democratic attorneys general and governors sue USDA for suspending SNAP benefits after agency removed shutdown plan stating $6 billion in contingency funds could cover aid.
HHS fires biosecurity adviser Steven Hatfill for falsely claiming to be chief medical officer after he defended canceling mRNA vaccine research and called spike proteins “biologically toxic.”
CFPB issues guidance claiming federal law bars states from keeping medical debt off credit reports, threatening protections in over a dozen states covering 100 million Americans with healthcare debt.
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue over Tylenol autism claims one month after RFK Jr. issued guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen despite lack of evidence.
Two Ohio Planned Parenthood affiliates request administrative hearings to challenge state Medicaid ban stemming from Trump’s July federal law barring payments for one year.
Health insurance premiums double for 225,000 Coloradans after Congress fails to extend tax credits during shutdown.
Trump reveals he received MRI at Walter Reed visit this month, calling results “perfect” but declining to explain why imaging was needed after diagnosis of leg vein disease.
Planned Parenthood Wisconsin resumes abortion services after one-month pause, relinquishing federal provider status to bypass Trump Medicaid ban on abortion facilities.
Federal judge blocks Trump from canceling up to $1 billion in student mental health grants, ruling Education Department’s identical explanations were “arbitrary and capricious.”
