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The federal budget is out, and some big losers are the poor, inc. people who rely on HUD funds for housing cost assistance and those who benefitted from energy assistance funds. Also: people who rely on the NIH to cure diseases. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…

STUNNING story: 25-year-old DOGE aide was warned about his conflicts of interest at CFPB but participated in mass layoffs at the agency anyway, including the firings of the ethics lawyers who had warned him. propublica.org/article/cfpb-g… Jake Pearson

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying about $33 billion in cuts to HHS, or about 25% of federal funding, including funding for HIV, tobacco control, gun violence prevention and dealing with lead exposure: appropriations.house.gov/schedule/heari…

Here's something that Secretary Kennedy is not cutting from the HHS budget: Billions for 'unproven and unnecessary' bandages sold to Medicare patients. nytimes.com/2025/04/10/hea…

NEW: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said at a conference in DC that he wants Covid shots to remain available for "high risk individuals." Concerns about availability arose after HHS said it wanted placebo-controlled studies for all new vaccines, including the Covid boosters.

NEW: Combatting chronic disease is a top priority for Secretary Kennedy. But deep cuts to tobacco control funding have decimated efforts to curtail the top driver of preventable death and disease. In N.C., for instance, 9 of 12 tobacco control staff have been laid off: GIFT:

SCOOP: FDA Approved the Novavax Covid shot with a catch: It's for people 12-64 who have an underlying condition. That will make it harder for many, such as those caring for a sick loved one, to get the jab: w/Apoorva Mandavilli nytimes.com/2025/05/17/sci…

The F.D.A. is prepared to approve Covid vaccines for 65+ and for those with an underlying condition. If you're 65 and under and healthy? You may need to wait. FDA wants more data: w/ Apoorva Mandavilli nytimes.com/2025/05/20/hea…

Not to troll FDA, but they fired so many people ... Apparently including the people who know who is who: Hint: Vinay Prasad MD MPH is on the right:

The MAHA Commission report calls American children "the sickest generation." It singles out food, chemicals, lack of physical activity and antidepressants as potential drivers of chronic disease. It does not mention tobacco or gun violence. nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/…

Roni Rabin of The New York Times takes a smart look at whether we indeed have the "most obese, depressed, disabled, medicated population in the history of the world," as FDA commissioner Makary said this morning in teeing off the new #MAHA report. nytimes.com/2025/05/22/hea…

Rubber hitting road: The elimination of US funding for programs that help countries fight neglected tropical diseases like lymphatic filariasis & river blindness is having & will have an enormous negative impact. “We risk losing the gains that we’ve made.” science.org/content/articl…

My book, "Dragon on Centre Street," is out this week! I still can’t quite believe it. The book focuses on Donald Trump’s sole criminal trial but it’s about more than that: it’s about the way that our institutions have failed to keep up with the 21st century, the way that

The MAHA report made up at least seven of its citations. Dozens of other citations in the report have broken links, incorrect authors or missing information. notus.org/health-science…

Trump says the migrants he deported to prison in El Salvador are “rapists” and “savages.” ⁦ProPublica⁩ and reporting partners obtained government data showing that administration officials were aware that was not true. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Major Katherine Eban investigation into Calley Means is out: "a six-month Vanity Fair investigation raises questions about whether Means has embellished his personal story. Nine of Means’s former PR colleagues dispute some of his key biographical assertions. As well, his health

Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research. nyti.ms/4mKsIne

NEW details on the federal budget plan (out late Friday) to slash $163 bn in federal spending. Pell grants, cancer research and HUD housing help take a big hit. Needy mothers who rely on WIC food assistance will see a $54 benefit fall to $13 per month. GIFT: