#RFKJr.’s #vaccine panel to review #ChildhoodImmunizationSchedule
The move could shift long-standing practices of how & when #children are #immunized in the #UnitedStates.
#Trump #eugenics #AntiVax #science #medicine #PublicHealth #Health #education #information #pediatrics #vaccines #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/rfk-jr-s-new-cdc-panel-to-review-childhood-vaccine-schedule
Sadly this sort of things happen way too often in the supposed richest country on Earth and the home of the free.
As a doctor in training more than 20 years ago, she cared for a teen boy who died from a degenerative neurological condition linked to his #measles #infection as an infant, when he was too young to be vaccinated.
“There are really bad, scary things that we can protect our #children from,” she said.
#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #Aporophobia #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #HealthInequity #PublicHealth #health #medicine #science #vaccines #disease #law #USpol
#NewMexico officials have tallied 65 cases & one death of an unvaccinated adult. These are the first #deaths from #measles in the #UnitedStates since 2015.
Dr. Alex Cvijanovich, a pediatrician in Albuquerque, said NM has one of the nation’s highest rates of childhood #poverty & says she is terrified about what could happen if the #children’s #vaccine program is scaled back.
#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #Aporophobia #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #HealthInequity #PublicHealth #law #USpol
#Congress created the #Vaccines for #Children program in 1993 after a US #measles #epidemic had killed dozens of children a few years earlier. The #CDC found
that >50% of the children who got measles then were unvaccinated. The #cost of the #immunization was a primary reason families had skipped the shot even though they were seeing doctors regularly….
#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #Aporophobia #HealthInequity #poverty #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #law #USpol
At the same time, #HHS canceled about $11 billion in #COVID-related grants to state & local #health departments that were used for a wide variety of #vaccine-related clinics & outreach activities, including for #measles. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the cuts in some states.
#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #Aporophobia #HealthInequity #poverty #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #law #USpol
The #Vaccines for #Children program funds #vaccine purchases from drug manufacturers including Merck & GlaxoSmithKline at a discount, while state #health departments implement the program & enroll #medical providers. A dose of MMR vaccine costs about $26 under the program compared to $95 in the private sector, acc/to #CDC price list.
#Aporophobia #HealthInequity #poverty #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #law #USpol
#Trump cuts threaten free #vaccine program for #kids amid #measles #outbreak
The #Vaccines for #Children program is funded by the U.S. Centers for #Disease Control & #Prevention [#CDC] & administered by state #PublicHealth officials. With an annual budget of roughly $5 billion, the vaccines program is responsible for about half the jabs administered to #US children every year.
#Aporophobia #HealthInequity #poverty #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-cuts-threaten-free-vaccine-program-kids-amid-measles-outbreak-2025-04-23/
An overhaul of the #housing agency comes on the heels of a congressional deal to fund the government through Sept that increased some housing spending yet did not keep pace with rising rents & the growing demand for federal #aid. The #funding gap could result in about 32,000 #voucher recipients soon losing access to federal #housing aid… on top of additional cuts once funding runs out in a pandemic-era program that expanded voucher availability.
…The White House also plans to dismantle a key office in the #housing agency that helps communities recover from deadly #NaturalDisasters, a move that could slow much-needed #emergency #aid. Separately, #Trump issued an #ExecutiveOrder last month eliminating a decades-old, government wide commission meant to coordinate the federal response to #homelessness.
#law #aporophobia #classism #caste #EconomicDiscrimination #LowIncome #families #RentalAssistance #plutocracy
…The expected cuts to #RentalAssistance reflect #Trump’s broader desire to *shrink the footprint of government & its reach into Americans’ lives* [more like kill the #poor, party with the #rich, eradicate the middle], a project that includes sharp #cuts to federal #antipoverty programs viewed as *too generous or wasteful*.
#law #aporophobia #classism #caste #EconomicDiscrimination #LowIncome #families #RentalAssistance #housing
#Project2025’s #RussVought, #Trump’s director of the Office of Management & Budget [#OMB], previously endorsed an end to the federal #voucher program. He [falsely] wrote in 2022 that the #Section8 program in particular “brings with it crime, decreased property values, & results in dependency & subsidized irresponsibility.”
#law #aporophobia #classism #caste #EconomicDiscrimination #LowIncome #families #RentalAssistance #housing
Federal #voucher programs currently provide assistance to ~2.3M #LowIncome #families, acc/to the govt’s estimates, who enroll through their local public-#housing authorities. The #aid is part of a broader universe of #RentalAssistance programs that are set to exceed $54B this fiscal year. But the annual demand for these subsidies is far greater than available funds, creating a sizable wait list as rents are rising nationally.
#Trump #law #aporophobia #classism #caste #EconomicDiscrimination
…the expected overhaul would most likely amount to more than just a technical change, resulting in fewer federal dollars for #LowIncome #families on top of additional cuts planned for the rest of the Dept of #Housing & Urban Development [#HUD]. On Thurs, the #Trump admin took the first steps toward potentially selling the agency’s HQ in Washington.
#law #Section8 #RentalAssistance #aporophobia #classism #caste #EconomicDiscrimination
Admin ofcls recently discussed cutting or canceling out the #vouchers & other #RentalAssistance programs & potentially replacing them with a more *limited* system of #housing grants, perhaps sent to states, acc/to 3 people familiar with the matter…. The overhaul would be included in #Trump’s new #budget, which is expected to be sent to #Congress in the coming weeks.
#law #LowIncome #families #Section8 #aporophobia #classism #caste #EconomicDiscrimination
The potential changes primarily concern federal #housing #vouchers, including those more commonly known as #Section8. The aid generally helps the poorest tenants cover the monthly costs of apartments, town homes & single-family residences.
#law #Trump #LowIncome #families #RentalAssistance #aporophobia #classism #caste #EconomicDiscrimination
The #Trump White House is considering deep cuts to federal #housing programs, including a sweeping overhaul of #aid to #LowIncome #families, in a reconfiguration that could jeopardize millions of Americans’ continued access to #RentalAssistance funds.
#law #aporophobia #classism #caste #EconomicDiscrimination
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/housing-aid-hud-federal-budget.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=A1DB4796-EA62-4919-9C07-82BAC2B0A4BE
#Trump's highest tariff will kill tiny African kingdom of #Lesotho
A 50% reciprocal #trade tariff on Lesotho, the highest levy on #Trump's long list of target economies, will kill the tiny Southern African kingdom that Trump ridiculed last month, an economic analyst there said.
Lesotho, which Trump described in March as a country "nobody has ever heard of", is one of the world's poorest nations with a GDP of just over $2B.
#geopolitics #economy #economy #Aporophobia
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/trump-slaps-tiny-african-kingdom-lesotho-with-highest-tariff-all-2025-04-03/
That's how the volcanic Australian territory of #HeardIsland & #McDonaldIslands in the #Antarctic ended up with a 10% tariff. The #penguins got off lightly, you might say.
But #Madagascar - one of the poorest nations in the world w/GDP per capita of just over $500 - meanwhile faces a 47% tariff on the modest $733M of exports of vanilla, metals & apparel that it did with the US last year.
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #Trumpcession #Aporophobia #idiocracy #geopolitics
Disgusting: The majority of the nations listed for “reciprocal” #tariffs on the 8-pg document distributed to reporters by the #Trump admin are #poor, #developing economies. They include some of the world’s poorest nations -- #SouthSudan, #Burundi & the #CentralAfricanRepublic -- as well as countries in the throes of #war, notably #Sudan.
#RevengePolitics #racism #xenophobia #aporophobia #WhiteChristianNationalism #economy #inflation #recession #TrumpTariffs #Trumpcession #geopolitics #USpol
