Under a 3% budget-cut order from Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick and Dustin Burrows, Texas's health agency has asked to eliminate the Children's Autism Program, which paid for therapy for 583 kids last year with 1,000 more waiting. The same order exempted Abbott's private school voucher program.
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Monica De La Cruz was caught on leaked audio admitting her poll numbers are dangerously low because voters just don't know her.
At the October 8 Iowa PBS debate, the Republican running for Iowa's open 2nd District seat said he would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Asked what would take its place, he talked about his childhood and Medicaid work requirements — and never named a replacement.
Kennedy's FDA sold its August food-ingredient rule as closing a loophole. Tucked inside it is a change that would let companies put low-dose chemicals directly into food after only an abbreviated review — the same shortcut that put more rocket-fuel chemical in baby cereal.
The Government Accountability Office found that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS illegally withheld more than $78 million that Congress approved last year for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — the agency whose research helped hospitals cut deadly infections. It has funded almost no new research since, and has gone from about 300 staff to about 90.
The House's No. 3 Republican told the St. Cloud Times that the spending cuts in Trump's budget bill were just the start — 'It doesn't even scratch the surface' — and government needs to be reinvented. The same bill is projected to leave 10 million more Americans uninsured — and the budget office says it adds $3.4 trillion to deficits. He also says he's stopped meeting constituents in public.
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John Rutherford voted to slash nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid, a vote that will leave 10 million more Americans uninsured and threaten local hospitals and nursing homes.
In a Senate ad shot with Windsor behind him, Mike Rogers says he'll make sure Michiganders don't pay more for prescriptions than Canadians. Bridge Michigan's fact-check found that as a congressman he voted at least four times against bills, motions or amendments to let cheaper drugs be reimported from Canada.
Sworn in on August 12, 2022, Brad Finstad cast his first votes that same day — against the law that capped insulin at $35 a month for people on Medicare. In 2023 he was one of only 40 House Republicans to vote against a bill to rein in the drug middlemen who drive up prescription prices.