🤡🐍 One in 285 Americans died during the start of the COVID pandemic while Trump and his allies lied and insisted that the disease was not dangerous.
Now he drags RFK Jr. out to revive the same vaccine-autism scam he’s been flogging for years. Today was pure snake oil pitched by two conmen with no medical or science training.
The medical establishment is furious. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists blasted them. Their blunt message: this is an assault on science and patient safety, and Trump’s lies already contributed to millions of deaths.
We need to insist to our representatives that they make RFK Jr. as toxic as the lies he spreads. This is the only way he becomes a liability to Trump and stops harming our health.
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The Trump administration plans to link Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism, contradicting established guidance from the FDA and medical organizations.
Today’s GovBrief News
Analysis: Corporations caving to Trump are alienating most consumers by mistaking his narrow voter base for broad public support.
The EPA eliminates its independent research office in a reorganization that places scientists under the administrator’s direct political control.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore over $500 million in UCLA health grants suspended over claims of antisemitism.
The Department of Homeland Security says it will defy a new California law banning its agents from wearing masks during immigration enforcement.
Texas Gov. Abbott signs a “bathroom bill” with the nation’s highest fines, forcing transgender people to use facilities matching their sex at birth.
The FBI re-arrests the ABC10 shooting suspect after finding a handwritten note threatening Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi.
The General Services Administration offers to reinstate nearly 400 buildings staff laid off under a plan that cut workers faster than property.
The U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission fires its director over an unauthorized Charlie Kirk tribute that it called a “security breach.”
The White House denies border czar Tom Homan accepted $50,000 in cash, contradicting reports of FBI audio and video evidence.
Trump installs his personal lawyer with no prosecutorial experience as U.S. attorney after firing the prosecutor who refused to charge James Comey and Letitia James.
Trump creates the novel “domestic terrorist organization” label for the Antifa movement via executive order.
The Supreme Court allows Trump to fire an FTC commissioner while it considers overturning a 90-year-old precedent on removal power.
A West Point professor files a First Amendment class-action lawsuit, alleging a free speech crackdown followed a Trump executive order.
A federal judge releases a man charged with aiming a laser at Marine One, calling prosecutors’ detention request “not remotely appropriate.”
Trump will meet Democratic leaders on Thursday to avert a government shutdown after they bypassed GOP leadership for direct talks.
The Trump administration approves a TikTok sale to a U.S. venture but will not take a government stake, unlike its recent Intel deal.
A federal judge ends the 31-day halt on the Revolution Wind farm, ruling the Trump administration’s stop-work order was arbitrary and capricious.
Sinclair will pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel’s return on its more than 35 affiliate stations despite ABC’s decision to reinstate the show.
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