Conservatives' goal of making our nation dumber and unhealthier is reaching fruition.
"the Trump administration’s cuts canceled 383 clinical trails, disproportionately affecting research into COVID-19; prevention for cancer, heart disease and brain disease; and behavioral interventions."
“It’s only a matter of time before people die,”
That's fine. I hadn't planned on eating anything for the next three goddamned years anyway!
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda
In Episode 72, Bill and Jumelle speak with nonprofit director, Teresa Goodman, about the damage being done to hardworking and valuable nonprofits across the nation..
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Because of cuts to the National Weather Service, western #Alaska was devastated by #Typhoon #Halong. More than 49 towns have been evacuated, a difficult thing in that region. When reaching out to friends in Alaska on how I could best help from thousands of miles away, they suggested this link. If you’ve got some spare change in the couch, these are vetted organizations to help people and animals.
💥 Chaos in D.C.: Trump’s cuts push 100,000+ federal workers to resign—largest single-year exodus since WWII. Critics warn of coercion, brain drain, and government collapse. “Savings” may come at the cost of public services. #TrumpCuts #FederalExodus #GovtCollapse www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US set for largest mass resign...
Trump Cuts Efforts Against Child Exploitation
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Rep. Shontel Brown Links Soaring Energy Costs to Trump’s Cuts in Solar Funding https://shinemycrown.com/rep-shontel-brown-links-soaring-energy-costs-to-trumps-cuts-in-solar-funding/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EnergyCosts #SolarFunding #ShontelBrown #CleanEnergy #TrumpCuts
North Carolinians just got Medicaid expansion. Now it’s jeopardized. – The Washington Post
Aaron Baptist checks out at the Rural Health Group clinic in Stovall, North Carolina. The clinic relies on Medicaid to serve residents in an area with few health care options. (Matt Ramey / For The Washington Post)As Medicaid cuts loom, North Carolina shows the stakes
North Carolina was the most recent state to expand Medicaid. Now enrollees face changes demanded by Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Yesterday at 6:00 a.m. EDT, 9 min By Paige Winfield CunninghamSTOVALL, N.C. — Roughly 650,000 people here have signed up for Medicaid since the legislature expanded it 18 months ago — the culmination of a years-long effort in this politically split state. But now they are in danger of losing it under provisions in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
In signing that law, Trump approved more than $900 billion in cuts to Medicaid over the next decade.
Those cuts are colliding with state budget challenges, imperiling the future of Medicaid in states such as North Carolina.
A Rural Health Group clinic serves many patients on Medicaid in Stovall.Devdutta Sangvai, the state’s top health official, told legislators in a letter last week that North Carolina will slash Medicaid payments to doctors, hospitals and other providers starting Oct. 1. He attributed the cuts to the GOP-led legislature declining to fully fund the program. New administrative costs to restrict eligibility under the federal law are among the long-term factors that risk “a fundamental erosion of the NC Medicaid program,” he wrote.
“Despite careful efforts to minimize harm, the reductions now required carry serious and far-reaching consequences,” Sangvai wrote. He said that reduced rates “could drive providers out of the Medicaid program, threatening access to care for those who need it most.”
Republican leaders have pushed back, suggesting that health officials could have found less disruptive ways to trim Medicaid spending.
Cuts to Medicaid affect more North Carolinians than ever before. The state’s Medicaid rolls swelled nearly 30 percent, to 3 million people, after state Republicans dropped their decade-long opposition to expanding the program under the increasingly popular Affordable Care Act and worked with Democrats to broaden eligibility.
Before that expansion, Medicaid mainly covered people with low incomes who were disabled, had dependent children or were pregnant. But now, in most states, just about anyone earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty threshold ($22,000 for a single person and $44,000 for a family of four) is eligible.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: North Carolinians just got Medicaid expansion. Now it’s jeopardized. – The Washington Post
#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #Health #healthCare #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Medicaid #NorthCarolina #Politics #Resistance #Science #Stovall #TheWashingtonPost #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpCuts #UnitedStates
Gov. Polis to make 'major announcement' as state navigates $1.2 billion revenue hit
‘...I want the governor to be making these cuts, of whatever flavor they are, in consultation and collaboration with, at least in consultation with us as the Joint Budget Committee, and with the Legislature more broadly’
Gov. Polis to make 'major announcement' as state navigates $1.2 billion revenue hit
‘...I want the governor to be making these cuts, of whatever flavor they are, in consultation and collaboration with, at least in consultation with us as the Joint Budget Committee, and with the Legislature more broadly’
The Stakes: Struggling area food banks brace for higher demand after SNAP cuts
“The Stakes” is a UC Berkeley Journalism project on executive orders and actions affecting Californians and their communities. On a hot morning in late June, Gabriel Biddler came to River City Food Bank’s distribution center in Sac…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #foodbanks #Thestakes #Trumpcuts
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2207254/the-stakes-struggling-area-food-banks-brace-for-higher-demand-after-snap-cuts/
U.S will burn $10m in reproductive health aid following Trump cuts http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TM5QZb #ReproductiveHealth #WomensRights #TrumpCuts #HealthCareForAll #AidForWomen
‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts | US news | The Guardian
‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts
President’s assault on science –particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs
By Nina Lakhani, Sun 20 Jul 2025 07.00 EDT
“Our ability to respond to climate change, the biggest existential threat facing humanity, is totally adrift,” said Sally Johnson, an Earth scientist who has spent the past two decades helping collect, store and distribute data at Nasa (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and Noaa (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
Donald Trump’s assault on science – but particularly climate science – has led to unprecedented funding cuts and staff layoffs across federally funded agencies and programs, threatening to derail research tackling the most pressing issues facing Americans and humanity more broadly. A generation of scientific talent is also on the brink of being lost, with unprecedented political interference at what were previously evidence-driven agencies jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth.
Johnson was among scores of scientists conducting vital research across a range of fields from infectious diseases, robotics, education, computer science and the climate crisis, who responded to a Guardian online callout to share their experiences about the impact of the Trump administration’s cuts to science funding.
Many said they had already had funding slashed or programs terminated, while others fear that cuts are inevitable and are beginning to search for alternative work – either overseas or outside science. So far, the cuts have led to a 60% reduction in Johnson’s team, and fear is mounting over the future of 30 years of climate data and expertise as communities across the country are battered by increasingly destructive extreme weather events.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘A disaster for all of us’: US scientists describe impact of Trump cuts | US news | The Guardian
#2025 #America #Climate #ClimateChange #DonaldTrump #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #Science #TheGuardian #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpCuts #UnitedStates #USScientists
LETTER: Trump inflicts a $6 million hit on Aurora students. It came without warning
'These funds were promised. Our schools planned around them. Our kids shouldn’t be collateral damage.' — APS Board President Anne Keke
LETTER: Trump inflicts a $6 million hit on Aurora students. It came without warning
'These funds were promised. Our schools planned around them. Our kids shouldn’t be collateral damage.' — APS Board President Anne Keke
🚨Trump is withholding $6.8 BILLION in federal school funding—money legally owed to states TODAY.
That includes funds for:
• Migrant kids
• English learners
• Teacher training
• After-school programs
This isn’t fiscal policy. It’s sabotage.
#SaveOurSchools #TrumpCuts www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Trump Tells States He's Holdin...
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science
-news/tired-tornado-alley-rcna208527
Tired in Tornado Alley - NBC reports the lack of
staff in key tornado and flood monitoring and
prevention positions, due to the Trump
administration cuts in budget #meteorology
#tornadoesfloodswildfires #tornadoes #floods #mississippi #tornadoalley #naturaldisasters #usa #uspolitics #trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #budget #TrumpCuts #dogecuts #News #usnews #nbcnews #weather #nationalweatherserviceunderfunded #nationalweatherservice
Evidently, the BBBill will defund bird banding, among all the other evils it will do.
#birding #birdbanding #TrumpCuts #bigbeautifulbill
https://www.aba.org/proposed-bird-banding-lab-closure-endangers-bird-research/
And yes, I made this the old fashioned way back in 2019 -- using cut and paste! It's a riff on a similar one posted about #ShinzoAbe when he was saying that #FukushimaNuclearPlant meltdowns were just "fine".
#TrumpCuts #MAGADeathCult #USPol #EPACuts #RadiationLevels #TrumpLies #Propaganda
#politics #TrumpCuts
Big Beautiful Bail?
Trump bill may not clear Senate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1l2fhnt/trump_loses_it_at_rand_paul_as_gop_budget_bill/
