Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

New York

Writer at The Hill

I write about health and other stuff @thehill. [email protected] Signal: 859 913 2778

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Articles

Trump’s surgeon general pick exposes cracks in MAHA movement

3 days ago | thehill.com | Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech |Nathaniel Weixel

President Trump’s second choice for U.S. surgeon general has set off a wave of infighting within the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. Casey Means is a prominent health influencer and ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but she is seen as insufficiently skeptical of vaccines by some of his prominent supporters — and a “total crack pot” by others in Trump World.
RFK Jr. on damage control over surgeon general nominee

5 days ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down for a Fox News interview Thursday to try to quell the tide of opposition that arose from MAGA figures after President Trump chose a health technology entrepreneur as his second pick for Surgeon General. President Trump chose Casey Means, a Kennedy ally and prominent nutrition advocate in the Make America Healthy Again movement as his nominee for the post.
Janette Nesheiwat to still work for Department of Health and Human Services

5 days ago | thehill.com | Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

President Trump recently switched his nomination for Surgeon General but his first pick, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, will continue to work at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said during a Thursday interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier that the administration will put Nesheiwat in “a very good place,” in the agency. The White House pulled Nesheiwat’s nomination after her credentials were scrutinized last month.
House GOP out of sync on Medicaid

5 days ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

One of the thorniest issues facing House Republicans has yet to be resolved, even as the Energy and Commerce Committee barrels toward a meeting early next week to mark up its portion of President Trump’s domestic policy bill.
Democratic senators ask Trump administration to rehire CDC IVF team

6 days ago | thehill.com | Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

A group of more than a dozen Democratic senators is asking the Trump administration to rehire a team of scientists at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dedicated to conducting research on in vitro fertilization (IVF), which it disbanded in April. The Department of Government Efficiency’s mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have gutted maternal and reproductive health programs.
Pharma warns tariffs mean less R&D

6 days ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

The pharmaceutical trade group PhRMA has come out strongly against tariffs, warning that every dollar collected in tariffs means one less dollar invested in U.S. biopharmaceutical research and development.
Why a Trump ‘baby bonus’ is unlikely to boost fertility rate

1 week ago | thehill.com | Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

The White House is reportedly considering a proposal to give new mothers a $5,000 “baby bonus” to help encourage Americans to have more children, but economists and social science experts are skeptical that the potential move would work. The New York Times reported last month that the White House was consulting with policy experts and pronatalist advocates about ways to incentivize American women to have more children.
Conservative group: extend ObamaCare subsidies

1 week ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

As lawmakers in the House struggle over potential deep cuts to Medicaid, a conservative group is pitching an extension of ObamaCare subsidies to blunt the coverage impact on the public and the political blowback to lawmakers.
Fewer than half of Americans trust FDA, CDC to do their job

1 week ago | thehill.com | Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

Fewer than half of Americans believe federal health agencies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) can do key parts of their job, like ensuring new vaccines are safe, new poll findings show. Five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, 42 percent of people in the U.S. think federal health agencies are effectively able to respond to infectious disease outbreaks, according to a poll released Tuesday by the health nonprofit KFF.
Democratic AGs sue over HHS ‘dismantling’

1 week ago | thehill.com | Nathaniel Weixel |Joseph Choi |Alejandra O'Connell Domenech

A coalition of 20 attorneys general is suing the Trump administration over what it claims to be the “dismantling” of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the past few months through mass layoffs and the freezing of core functions. Filed in the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island, the attorneys general argue that the Trump administration is supporting HHS Secretary Robert F.