Alejandra O'Connell Domenech
Writer at The Hill
Staff writer @thehill. ✉️[email protected]
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6 days ago |
thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech
The department had a discretionary budget of about $121 billion in fiscal year 2024, but the Trump administration is now seeking to reduce that budget to about $80 billion in fiscal year 2026, according to a preliminary budget memo obtained by The Washington Post.
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1 week ago |
thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech
During a hastily called press conference Wednesday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested without evidence that “environmental toxins” in food and medicine were to blame for rising autism rates. “One of the things I think we need to move away from today is this ideology that the autism prevalence increases, the relentless increases, are simply artifacts of better diagnoses, better recognition, or changing diagnostic criteria,” Kennedy said.
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1 week ago |
thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech |Joseph Choi
The Trump administration is potentially undoing decades of work to mitigate the HIV epidemic and holding up upcoming progress by slashing the country’s public health workforce, experts say. When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to severely cut the workforce of his department, entire offices dedicated to helping combat the epidemic were gutted, worrying HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) experts.
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1 week ago |
thehill.com | Alejandra O'Connell Domenech
The number of abortions in the U.S. keeps rising with more Americans turning to online-only clinics for medication abortions, according to new data released Tuesday. In-clinic abortion in states without bans on the procedure have remained relatively stable in recent years. There were 1,038,100 clinician-provided abortions in states without abortion bans last year, an increase of less than 1 percent from 2023, according to a report from the reproductive rights group the Guttmacher Institute.
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1 week ago |
thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech
The U.S. Department of Commerce in a Federal Register notice said the probe, known as a Section 232 investigation, began April 1, the day before President Trump announced widespread tariffs on all imported goods but specifically exempted pharmaceuticals.
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