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The House schedule for next week doesn't include consideration of the Senate bill to address the $1.1 billion hole that Congress blew in the city's current budget. That could mean a delay in Mayor Bowser's submission of the FY26 budget to the D.C. Council. www.majorityleader.gov/schedule/wee...

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In 15 yrs of reporting, I've never had so many health & biomed researchers & outreach orgs tell me they're afraid to talk w/press or barred from speaking bc of new comms policies. I understand the fear of losing funds. I don't know if silence does more harm than good. If you can speak up, pls do.

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DOJ -- realizing that its homework is in fact due today -- has ordered nearly all of the attorneys in the National Security Division to start reviewing records on the JFK assassination. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jus...

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NIH officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine tech from their grant applications, two researchers said. The mRNA tech is under study at NIH for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, including flu and AIDS, and also cancer. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Say it five times fast: Improper payments are not the same as fraud, waste and abuse. Improper payments are not the same as fraud, waste and abuse. Improper payments are not the same as ... From @kff.org www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

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BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts says impeachment of federal judges is “not an appropriate response” to disagreement with their rulings.

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NEW: The Trump admin aims to halt gender-affirming surgery for federal inmates. Only two people are documented to have received the surgery in federal custody. I spoke with one of them for @19thnews.org and @kffhealthnews.org 19thnews.org/2025/03/tran...

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Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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👋🏽 New here but my job hasn’t changed. Say hello and send tips on the health care stories we need to tell. @kffhealthnews.org

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PAXLOVID alert. Went to a pharmacy to pick up a Paxlovid Rx for (for real) a friend. Out-of-pocket cost for one course of treatment was almost $800, discounted from Pfizer's charge of $1500. Medicare subsidy for Paxlovid expired 2 weeks ago, & no one has given thought to how to make it accessible.

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Last year, the government stopped cutting off people’s monthly Social Security benefits to claw back 💲 overpayments. Last week, under President Donald Trump, it reversed that change. 🤔 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Breaking: DOGE got access to the child-support database Sensitive system includes data on virtually all U.S. workers The career civil servant who objected to DOGE earlier this week is no longer at HHS Scoop with @jeffstein.bsky.social

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HHS is said to have asked CDC to look into vaccines and autism, despite robust evidence showing no link between the two: www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/h...

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NEWS: Makary’s regarded as a brilliant surgeon, but his off-target pandemic claims included a February 2021 prediction that Covid would be “mostly gone” three months later. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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FAA halts flights at Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, and Orlando airports for "space launch debris" after SpaceX test flight 8 explodes, like test flight 7 did. Debris falling broadly across the Caribbean and Bahamas areas. FAA will certainly need to do mishap investigation again.

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Trump nominee to head up FDA won’t make any commitments on abortion pill access www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

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The newly installed caretaker at the Social Security Administration acknowledged this week that Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is calling the shots as the agency races to slash thousands of jobs and shrink its budget. “Things are currently operating in a way I have never seen in government before.”

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UPDATE: At least some fired CDC workers have had their jobs reinstated and have been cleared to return to work March 5, according to emails I obtained. "We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused," said the CDC email, which was unsigned and sent this afternoon.

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One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimated. The programs were cut anyway. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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BREAKING: Catholic Charities Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, sues HHS, alleging that HHS's refusal to pay $36 million in open grant agreements has resulted in "over 100,000 eligible individuals and families losing access to critical services" and layoffs and furloughs across partner agencies.

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ICYMI: new MMWR has been published, showing that this year’s flu vaccine is decent at keeping people from needing to see the doctor… and pretty darn good at preventing kids’ (& to a lesser extent, adults’) flu hospitalization Also: it’s safe. And it’s not too late to get it.

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A huge amount of communication amongst men happens by micro expression and I presume the same is true about women. So I drive my wife to a gala for her charity. She's setting up and doing board member things so I go to a bookstore for a while then come back with time to kill. /1

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The NWS is some of the best bang-for-our-buck we get as taxpayers. Completely free, lifesaving forecasts cost us about $3 each a year and delivery at least $40 worth of benefit to each of us. That is a pretty damn good return on investment.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Sometimes I just sit here and am like, my government is operating on an explicit, literal policy to end diversity, equity and inclusion.

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In theory, price transparency in health care sounds great. Pretty much no one opposes it, except those required to be transparent. In practice, health care price transparency has been a bit of a mess and not as useful as we would like it to be. www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/challe...

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Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

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ZEN: Do yourself a favor and take 4 minutes to listen to this Jackie Fortier report on the effort to save Washington's Anacostia river from the city's poop. Via @wamu.org.web.brid.gy and @kffhealthnews.org wamu.org/story/25/02/...

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SCOOP > The Trump administration is weighing pulling Moderna's contract to create bird flu shots, part of a bigger effort to question spending on messenger RNA-based vaccines Madison Muller, @rileyraygriffin.bsky.social and @ikeswetlitz.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Local health officials say one child has died of measles - not 2, as RFK claims. RFK downplayed the outbreak, saying people have been hospitalized for quarantine. That's wrong. He said this wasn't unusual, instead of saying it's sad & preventable w/ vaccines. See kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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NEWS: Some states can't resist dipping into opioid settlements to patch budget holes -- "a grave misuse of funds," one addiction recovery advocate says. @aneripattani.bsky.social looks at the debate over $5 million in Nevada. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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“The greatest opportunity of our lifetimes is before us." The $70 billion supplements industry -- vitamins, fish oil pills, protein powders, etc. -- is pretty, pretty excited to have RFK Jr. running HHS. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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A political conference in Washington, DC, that bills itself as the alternative to the Trump-aligned CPAC was evacuated after a death threat made against several of its speakers who have been critical of President Donald Trump.

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NEWS: The Trump administration plans to terminate 10% of the CDC's employees, including "senior scientists," @celinegounder.com reports for CBS News "It's a chilling of the public health service," she says. www.cbsnews.com/video/cdc-lo...

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“Ms. Sassoon joined the Southern District in 2016. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, she clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court and is a member of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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Updated @kff.org analysis of health coverage by race and ethnicity from 2010-2023. Despite coverage gains over time, racial disparities persisted in 2023. Disparities could widen due to potential Medicaid cuts, expiration of ACA subsidies, and immigration policy changes. www.kff.org/racial-equit...

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NEW: RFK Jr. said a new study linked vaccines to autism in his confirmation hearing. We found that the study's author had a hard time getting it published. Then he got help from Andrew Wakefield, who is famous for the first debunked study linking the the two. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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NEW: Trump’s feared DOJ enforcer has a secret: He, too, investigated Jan. 6 With @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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Courts ordered the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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NEW: I want to tell you about some of the most courageous people I've ever met. One year ago they were injured during the mass shooting at the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City: Shot, trampled, burned, scarred. They've allowed @peggylowe.bsky.social and me into their lives to see their journeys

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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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NEW: Patel began consulting for a Chinese ecommerce giant a month before it retained a lobbying firm where Pam Bondi—Trump’s newly confirmed US attorney general—worked at the time. Patel owns stock valued between $1-5 million. He is not planning to divest. by @lmatsakis.bsky.social:

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Talk to us. If you're a current or former worker at HHS or its component agencies and unusual things are happening at the office that you think the public should know about: kffhealthnews.org/hhs-tips/ You can also contact me directly on Signal at 202-607-0453.

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The FCC has opened an investigation into a radio station's news coverage of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. www.kqed.org/news/1202597...

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Here is what the censoring of data.cdc.gov looks like over time

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Yet more casualties of “feeding USAID into the woodchipper” — parks, reefs, elephants, lions … www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/t...

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More fallout from "feeding USAID into the woodchipper": www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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