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3 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Alice Ollstein |Ben Leonard |Hailey Fuchs |Nicholas Wu |Daniel Desrochers |Mia McCarthy | +7 more
Democrats and Republicans clashed throughout the night over the bill's Medicaid provisions.
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3 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Alice Ollstein |Sophie Gardner
The move reinstates some employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health — which lost more than 90 percent of its workforce Some federal health workers were notified Tuesday that they will not be laid off, one day before Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify on Capitol Hill for the first time since his confirmation.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Alice Ollstein |Sophie Gardner
The Trump administration on Tuesday asked some of the thousands of federal public health workers it laid off to return permanently, according to emails shared with POLITICO. The move reinstates employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health — which lost more than 90 percent of its workforce, several hundred people, as part of the administration’s broader purge of tens of thousands of federal health agency staffers last month.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Alice Ollstein |Sophie Gardner
The Trump administration's purge of the health department is cutting so deep that it has incapacitated congressionally mandated programs and triggered legal challenges. The administration insists the cuts are a lawful “streamlining” of a “bloated” agency, but federal workers, Democratic lawmakers, state officials and independent legal experts say keeping offices afloat in name only – with minimal or no staff – is an unconstitutional power grab.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Alice Ollstein |Sophie Gardner
3 hours ago"Bad things happen in threes." Another Saturday Night Live, another Cold Open starring James Austin Johnson doing his eerily spot-on Donald Trump impression. This week, the sketch starts sweetly with Kenan Thompson, Marcello Hernández, and Bowen Yang delivering a heartfelt Mother’s Day tribute — …
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1 month ago | 
politico.com | Alice Ollstein
The paper, published last week, purports to show significantly more patients have experienced serious side effects after taking mifepristone than previously known. Medical experts and abortion-right supporters say it exaggerates the danger of a medication that more than 100 scientific studies have found are safe and effective. The report’s release comes on the heels of top Trump officials — including Health Secretary Robert F.
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1 month ago | 
politico.com | Alice Ollstein |Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo
With help from Robert King, Sophie Gardner and Erin Schumaker The DOJ is defending an FDA rule in favor of access to the abortion drug mifepristone, a move that might anger some anti-abortion groups. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP DOJ TELLS COURT TO TOSS ABORTION PILL CASE — The Trump administration revealed in a court filing Monday afternoon that it will continue the Biden administration’s defense of the FDA’s rules for mifepristone, a drug used in roughly two-thirds of abortions.
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1 month ago | 
politico.com | Alice Ollstein
The filing over the regulation of mifepristone indicates an emerging pattern: An effort to preserve executive power. President Donald Trump Justice Department argued in a Monday filing that GOP-led states lack standing in a case about FDA regulation of abortion pills. (AP/Alex Brandon) The Trump administration is defending federal regulations allowing abortion pills to be available online and by mail, the Justice Department revealed on Monday.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Alice Ollstein
The Trump administration is defending federal regulations allowing abortion pills to be available online and by mail, the Justice Department revealed on Monday. But rather than defending the Food and Drug Administration’s rules for the pills on the merits, the DOJ argued in a filing with a Texas federal court that the three GOP-controlled states suing the agency lack standing and the case should be thrown out.
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1 month ago | 
politico.com | Sophie Gardner |Alice Ollstein
An HHS spokesperson said the reprieve could become permanent. The International Association of Fire Fighters took credit for the reversal in a statement. | Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is calling back to work some laid off federal employees who focused on the health and safety of coal miners, firefighters, and survivors of 9/11, a Republican senator and a national union of firefighters said Tuesday.
