> Trump officials sought to divert attention away from PFAS repeals and are focusing instead on the EPA’s recent unveiling of $1 billion in grant funding for small and disadvantaged communities to detect and eliminate PFAS. 

“We have a president who has made a greater financial commitment than any president in US history,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., pointing to the $1 billion. The catch: That money comes from an appropriation made by Congress in 2021, when Joe Biden was president. 

https://link.motherjones.com/view/6a0b3aa1b8e353d8f50a1f3bralzr.4j31/4733ac22

#motherjonesmagazine #trump
#EPA #pfas #pfaswater #HHS
#Congress #robertfkennedyjr
#joebiden #foreverchemicals
#MAHA #cancer

Like #CA #GovNewsom, top Dem candidate for state's highest office pulls a #Gavin and quietly backs away from previous pledge to support #SinglePayer #Healthcare in America's most populous state...

#Newsom previously earned a big endorsement from state's powerful #nurses union before betraying promise to put issue on his agenda once elected.

Spokesman for former #HHS secretary under #Biden calls goal "unrealistic"

https://capitalandmain.com/in-california-governors-race-xavier-becerra-walks-away-from-single-payer

"A bill passed by the state legislature in March then signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis allows Colorado to further uncouple itself from federal guidance.

The law allows health officials to follow the recommendations of national medical groups when making decisions such as purchasing bulk vaccines for the Medicaid program."

https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/colorado-vaccine-law-coalition-cdc-acip-infectious-disease-prevention-polio/

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #medicaid #colorado #CDC #HHS #misinformation #WHO

"In letters dated May 11, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notified the two doctors who chaired the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that he was terminating their appointments immediately, before the end of their multiyear terms."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-preventive-services-task-force-fired-63fc5ce14d92c89393fefc361c5fcfde

#healthcare #PublicHealth #HHS #USPSTF #PrimaryCare #insurance #ACA

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"A new HHS health advisory committee met very briefly Monday to introduce its members and outline its broad goals for reshaping large parts of the healthcare system...The committee's first meeting, which was livestreamed on Monday afternoon, was slated to run from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m...lasted for only 30 minutes, mainly because several sections took much less time than they were allotted."

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/healthpolicy/121328

#healthcare #HHS #cms #medicare #medicaid #CHIP #ACA #obamacare

"The Health and Human Services Department is moving hundreds of senior career staff to a new civil service classification that will make it easier to fire them."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/rfk-civil-service-job-protections-00925102

#HHS #OMB #Project2025 #CDC #OPM #workers #WorkersRights #USpol

"The US began w/d funding for the #WHO in early 2025 *forced:🚨org to slash its budgets for 2026/27. WHO: now greatly underfunded -had to shed huge#s of staff -disastrous.”

“#HHS🚨Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious #Diseases to Stop Res. NIAID’s Integr Res Fac is one of the few fed facs chgd with studying #Ebola. All of its work was put on indefinite pause by #RFKJr’s dept.”

I've lost track of how many ways Trump/Rs are KILLING us‼️#Deaths #USPol
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2527072-the-ebola-emergency-shines-a-light-on-the-urgent-need-for-new-vaccines/
https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/