A judge ruled that Kennedy's vaccine committee violated its own charter rules concerning expertise qualifications...
So guess what Kennedy's doing?
Yep. Rewriting the rules.
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Immigrant Seniors Lose Medicare Coverage Despite Paying for It
Rosa María Carranza has worked and paid taxes for more than two decades, but a provision in the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make her and an estimated 100,000 other lawfully ...
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https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/immigrant-seniors-medicare-california-big-beautiful-bill-eligibility-taxes/
President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs. The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some 44%, had been telegraphed by the Republican president even before the U.S.-led war against Iran. The president’s plan would also reduce spending on non-defense programs by 10%. The massive document typically highlights an administration’s priorities, but Congress, which handles federal spending issues, is free to reject it and often does.
"The Health Department is quietly laying the groundwork to revive a vaccine advisory committee whose membership and decisions were frozen last month by a federal judge.
A document renewing the committee’s charter for the next two years, and scheduled to be published on Monday in the Federal Register, enshrines changes that would allow Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to nominate members of his choice."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/health/kennedy-vaccine-advisers-acip.html
‘Print Jockey’: The colorful world of food | Opinion
Walk into any grocery store, and you are assailed by colorful foods and snacks. Blue sports drinks sit next to blazing red chips that suggest a fiery kick. While most people know that artificial food dyes are common in sweets, drinks, and snack foods, most…
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https://www.diningandcooking.com/2584848/print-jockey-the-colorful-world-of-food-opinion/
Trump administration accused of violating court order by sharing #Medicaid data with #ICE:
A senior legal expert says a 'strong possibility' exists that #HHS and ICE violated the district court's ruling on Medicaid recipient data~
"More than a dozen Democratic-led states are...asking a judge to enforce the ruling."
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https://thebradentontimes.com/stories/states-say-ice-pulled-medicaid-data-despite-court-order,191422
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https://www.rawstory.com/states-say-ice-pulled-medicaid-data-despite-court-order/
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-accused-violating-court-order-sharing-medicaid-data-ice
“In relative peacetime of no major outbreaks, no major pandemics, it’ll be fine,” said Jill Taylor, who directed the Wadsworth Center, New York State’s public health laboratory, until October 2020.
But, she said, “If we have an emergency all of a sudden, God help us.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/health/cdc-rabies-mpox-tests-paused.html
"But this year, the Trump administration delayed the standard application process for new grants. So clinics across the country are worried that the money they need will not become available Wednesday."
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