By Sen. Roger Marshall via The Daily Signal | April 03, 2025 Medicaid and Medicare are on a path that should concern all Americans, but with the right leadership, we can turn their trajectory around. On its current course, Medicare, the government-run health insurance program for seniors, will fall off a
By Emily Kopp, Contributor Daily News Caller Foundation | April 02, 2025 Christine Grady, a top bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health and the wife of former top NIH official Anthony Fauci, was among the health bureaucrats who received a layoff notice on Tuesday, according to news reports. Grady was
By Robert Moffit via The Daily Signal | April 02, 2025 President Donald Trump told our new Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “go wild” on health. Backing up Kennedy, Trump issued an executive order to create a special commission, chaired by Kennedy himself, to
By Isaiah Hankel via The Daily Signal | April 03, 2025 I once stood within the halls of academia, benefiting from the generous funding of the National Institutes of Health. I was part of the system, a researcher fueled by grants that were supposed to propel scientific progress. But after years
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal | April 04, 2025 The Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Department has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in grants dedicated to researching illegal sexual behavior in children, pregnancy prevention for “transgender boys,” and so-called sleep inequality affecting black sexual-minority men. In
The U.S. Senate voted 53-45 along party lines to confirm Dr. Mehmet Oz, a celebrity physician, as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Nominated by President Donald Trump, Oz will oversee health insurance programs affecting over 172 million Americans, including Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP. CONFIRMED 🇺🇸 Congratulations
With the U.S. withdrawal from the UN agency due to take effect in January, the WHO is facing a budget deficit of $2.5bn in 2025-27 – even after making cuts of $1.1bn to next year's budget. In response to the U.S. withdrawal, the WHO has
By David Harsanyi, The Daily Signal | April 01, 2025 When I first came across Jonathan Chait’s new Atlantic piece, “Why the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided,” I assumed the answer would be that Democrats had been the ones relentlessly and tragically wrong about virtually everything during the pandemic. No
By Emily Kopp, Contributor Daily Caller News Foundation | April 01, 2025 Some leaders of the many sprawling agencies and centers that make up the Department of Health and Human Services have been given a choice: Move out of DC or resign. HHS began executing 10,000 layoffs as part of
By Joel Thayer via The Daily Signal | March 31, 2025 The Trump administration received some good news when the Senate confirmed Dr. Marty Makary as head of the Food and Drug Administration. This is a critical nomination to get through because the FDA will play an integral role in executing
By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal | March 31, 2025 Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I don’t want to go back and look at the 2020 elections, especially, but there’s some developments in the news this week that suggest that we might. Remember,
By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal | March 31, 2025 Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. introduced the Sarah Katz Caffeine Safety Act at a press conference Monday, a bill that would require labels showing caffeine levels on beverages. Joined by the parents of children who have died from cardiac episodes after consuming
By Steve McKee, via The Daily Signal | March 30, 2025 In 1998, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw published a bestselling book about Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II. He called it, and them, “The Greatest Generation.” He had good reason to.
By Robert Moffit via The Daily Signal | March 26, 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has a herculean task: “Make America Healthy Again.” As Politico recently reported, Kennedy’s ambitious agenda could even dwarf the efforts of Elon Musk, the
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled plans to reduce the size of the department, cutting 10,000 full-time jobs and closing five of its ten regional offices. These cuts come in addition to the 10,000 employees who left voluntarily since President Trump’s tenure. If
By Thomas English, Contributor Daily Caller News Foundation | March 25, 2025 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to fund more than a billion dollars in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, even after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to eliminate them. While other agencies have moved to eliminate the
