Cutting Health Care, Supercharging ICE
Just over a year ago, Congress passed the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which massively expanded immigration enforcement in American communities by redirecting hundreds of billions of dollars to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). These taxpayer dollars were originally allocated to help families afford health care and groceries. At a time when Americans face an increasing affordability crisis and struggle to pay for basic necessities like food, housing, and health care, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress appropriated $191 billion for the Department of Homeland Security, most of it going to immigration enforcement, on a party-line vote, while cutting $911 billion from health care funding and $186 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Combined with the loss of expanded subsidies to millions of people enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace health insurance plans and cuts to community safety programs, these cuts will devastate American families and communities. Over the last year, we have already begun to see the effects: millions of people losing health care, hospitals closing across the country, and billions poured into new immigration jails and ICE assaults on American cities.
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The U.S. is on the Verge of Losing its Measles Elimination Status
pbs.org | Public health scientists around the country are investigating whether the now-ended Texas outbreak is linked to active ones in Utah, Arizona, and South Carolina. But doctors and scientists say the U.S.—and North America overall—has a measles problem, regardless of the determination
Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer
NewYorkTimes.com | America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat at one of its most productive moments.
Kids with Brain Cancer Were Already in a Life and Death Struggle. Then came Trump
theguardian.com | The Trump administration’s dismantling of federal agencies has hit cancer research hard. It has led to budgets being slashed, grants being canceled or delayed, while clinical trials—often the final hope for children with terminal illness—have been suspended or closed.
Trump Cuts to Violence Prevention Programs Likely to Increase Deaths
ldi.upenn.edu | The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to violence-prevention programs nationwide are likely to reverse years of progress in reducing gun violence and may lead to a surge in shootings across cities, suburbs, and rural areas, according to two leading academic experts speaking at the University of Pennsylvania.
Federal Cuts Disrupt Local Justice Programs, but Communities Push Forward
themarshallproject.org | A Marshall Project analysis of the grants terminated in late April found that more than 9% of grant descriptions mentioned phrases related to gender identity or sexual orientation and over 40% of grant descriptions mentioned ones related to race, ethnicity or immigration status.
Public safety groups face an uncertain future months after federal grant cuts
NPR.com | “Almost all the cuts were to nonprofits. Solomon, the former DOJ official, says that reveals how the Trump administration is thinking about public safety…The kind of old school thinking is that it's only police that can keep communities safe. And what we're seeing out in the field more and more is that community-based organizations work as a complement to law enforcement," she says.”
Trump Administration Illegally Withheld Head Start Funds, Watchdog Finds
newyorktimes.com | The Trump administration illegally withheld funding from a roughly $12 billion federal child care program known as Head Start, according to congressional investigators, who said that President Trump and his top aides had wrongly interrupted the flow of money enacted by Congress.
How Trump’s Spending Bill Helps The Rich Buy Their Private Jets
forbes.com | A little-discussed portion of the billionaire President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill" hands a lucrative break to ultrawealthy Americans in the form of a tax policy for private jet purchases.
H.H.S. Reverses Decision to Cut $2 Billion for Mental Health and Addiction Services
newyorktimes.com | Less than 24 hours after the Trump administration informed more than 2,000 addiction and mental health programs nationwide that it was immediately terminating almost $2 billion of their funding, the administration reversed course and reinstated the money.
How cutting the food safety net threatens the public safety net
TheHill.com | Cuts to SNAP are bad for public safety
Losing Medicaid and Crime
National Bureau of Economic Research | Analyzing the impact of losing Medicaid and an increase in crime.
The impact of federal actions on academic medicine and the U.S. health care system
AAMC.org | The termination of more than 1000 NIH grants has resulted in the cancellation of more than 150 clinical trials