Elon Musk, who oversees the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, holds a chainsaw as he arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday in Oxon Hill, Md. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP A group of 21 civil servants whose team was folded into Elon Musk’s Department of […]
More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations,” the 21 staffers wrote in a joint […]
A pair of Republican senators are taking aim at taxpayer subsidies for hyper-addictive junk food delivered to the poor under Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Last week, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama introduced the Healthy SNAP Act, which would reform federal food stamps to prohibit items with […]
The day before Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential election, I wrote a post describing his health advisor, longtime antivaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as an “extinction-level threat” to federal public health and science-based health policy, if Trump were to win. Unfortunately for those who care about public health, Trump did win the election […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s appointment as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has sparked concerns over funding for the National Institutes of Health. Analysts warn that potential cuts to this funding could lead to increased “uncertainty” in the healthcare sector, potentially impacting healthcare stocks. What Happened: The NIH grants are “very important” sources of […]
