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Trump administration orders CDC to claw back $602M from blue states |
A directive from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Thursday ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to rescind over $600 million in funding from four Democratic-led states. |
The OMB directive targeted Colorado, Illinois, California and Minnesota, ordering that $602 million in CDC funding be clawed back along with $943 million by the Transportation Department. The CDC funds would have gone toward state and local health grants that the administration feels are too "woke." An OMB spokesperson said the rescissions are targeting "states fraught with waste and mismanagement." These rescinded funds included: - $3 million to Colorado to address COVID-19 disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups
- $5.2 million to Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago for increasing HIV PrEP use among Black cisgender women
- $500,000 to the University of California for evaluating state-level laws to prevent sexual and intimate partner violence among gender and sexual minorities.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) did not respond when reached for comment by The Hill regarding these rescissions. Eric Maruyama, spokesperson for Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D), said the state has yet to receive any official cancellation notices. "We will continue to fight back against unlawful grant terminations by the federal administration, as we have done with repeated success over the past year. For every dollar Colorado contributes to the federal government, we only get 90 cents in return, so any attempt to strip away funding to our state is absurd," Maruyama said. |
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An Arizona judge on Friday struck down three state laws that limited abortion access, including a ban on telemedicine for abortion, ruling that the laws violate the state’s constitution. Maricopa Superior Court Judge Gregory Como ruled that the restrictions predated a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2024 allowing abortion access. Como noted that the restrictions violated Arizonans’ “fundamental … |
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) blasted the direct-to-consumer (DTC) TrumpRx platform launched by the administration Thursday, denouncing it as a “glorified coupon book.” The Trump administration launched its DTC discount drug portal TrumpRx.gov Thursday evening. The website allows patients who are not on government health plans to print or download coupons for a few dozen drugs and present them at a pharmacy. The discounts … |
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The Trump administration's promised direct-to-consumer drug platform TrumpRx has officially gone live, with President Trump on Thursday calling it "one of the most transformative health care initiatives of all time." The website TrumpRx.gov currently features a collection of 43 prescription drugs treating various different conditions at varying discounts. Medications for asthma, infertility and obesity are among those available on the website ... |
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Domestic partners 'increasingly likely' to use poison to harm, kill partners, DHS says |
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning law enforcement agencies across the U.S. about an uptick in people using poisons, such as cyanide, to kill or harm their domestic partners. There were 17 documented instances of people using chemical or biological toxins against their partners between 2014 and 2025, resulting in at least 11 deaths, according to a January bulletin prepared by DHS's Countering Weapons of Mass … |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- Measles outbreak grows past 900 cases in Upstate South Carolina: What we know (WBTV)
- Federal funds will help Arkansas modernize health data collection (Arkansas Advocate)
- Maine confirms 1st measles case since 2019 (Bangor Daily News)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- With ICE using Medicaid data, hospitals and states are in a bind over warning immigrant patients (KFF Health News)
- The push to turn Big Food into the new Big Tobacco (STAT)
- How Lindsey Vonn can compete with a ruptured ACL (CNN)
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