Danny Nguyen

1 week ago | politico.com | Danny Nguyen |Jessie Blaeser

The General Services Administration, which oversees government contracting, is leading a review of more than 20,000 consulting agreements for what is “non-essential.” Illustration by Claudine Hellmuth/POLITICO (source images via iStock) A Trump administration project to revisit thousands of federal agreements is starting to sink a vast ecosystem of contractors that deploy jobs across the Washington economy.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Carmen Paun |Danny Nguyen |Marcia Brown |Caitlin Oprysko

President Donald Trump’s embrace of an environmental activist long on the far left of the Democratic Party worked out great in last year’s election and most Republicans in Congress endorsed Trump’s decision to let Kennedy “go wild” on health care. But lately, they’ve asked him pointed questions about what’s coming in his Make America Healthy Again Commission’s report. Kennedy has said repeatedly he believes food companies make people sick for profit.

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Danny Nguyen

AI TO THE RESCUE? With health systems stretched by staff shortages and rising chronic disease rates, some policymakers are pinning their hopes on artificial intelligence, our POLITICO colleagues in Europe report. The emerging technology “has the potential to transform the health care sector,” said Fulvia Raffaelli, head of digital health at DG SANTE, a branch of the European Commission responsible for EU public health and food safety policy, during a forum on the topic Wednesday.

1 month ago | politico.com | Danny Nguyen |Ben Johansen |Sophia Cai |Irie Sentner

Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. | Subscribe | | | Federal workers have gotten used to feeling the administration’s hammer. But now it is trying another tactic: bonuses.

1 month ago | politico.com | Danny Nguyen

Imagine if artificial intelligence could recognize signs of dementia in a person years before the condition fully emerges. How might early treatment impact the disease’s course? Could early treatment do away with the condition altogether? For decades, clinicians have focused primarily on treating the condition’s symptoms after they manifest. But new research by Yong Chen, who received an $8 million award from the National Institutes of Mental Health, could flip that on its head.