Policy · 119th Congress
The whoppers of 2025
On Nov. 1, 2024, just before the election, the BLS report showed growth of just 12,000 jobs in October and downward revisions for the prior two months.↵↵Signalgate: Not "total exoneration."Â
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Policy · 119th Congress
Lawyers say new CDC policy may violate federal disability law
short-term situations allowing for up to 80 hours, or two weeks, of telework, Pamela Protzel Berman, deputy director for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, told her staff in a Dec. 1
Health · 119th Congress
Cassidy suggests HHS is anti-science ahead of hepatitis B meeting
Roger Marshall, R-Kan., who's also a physician, said while he's "grateful for the vaccine," he harbors concerns about giving it to 1-day-old babies and worries it could impact their immune systems negatively
Kennedy’s vaccine advisory panel upends shot recommendations
AHIP, the main lobby group representing health insurers, announced earlier this week that it would continue to cover all immunizations that were recommended as of Sept. 1, 2025, and coverage would be available
Back from recess, Senate turns to defense while House looks to get back to business
As reported out of the Senate Armed Services Committee on a 26-1 vote, the bill would authorize $32.1 billion more that President Donald Trump requested for defense and national security spending.
Supreme Court allows Trump mass layoffs to move forward
The order directed the Office of Management and Budget to create a 4 to 1 departure to hiring ratio across the federal government and directed federal agencies to initiate "large scale reductions in force
Panel recommends removing thimerosal from flu vaccines
The panel voted 5-1 in three separate votes to recommend single-dose seasonal influenza vaccines that are free of thimerosal for children 18 years and younger, pregnant women and all adults.
CDC nominee deflects questions over Kennedy’s vaccine decisions
several questions, including whether the U.S. should have ended its financial support of a global vaccine distribution organization, whether HHS will add more seats to the ACIP committee, what is the No. 1
In the Spotlight: Roger Wicker
The Mississippi Republican called the bill "a start," but rejected the notion that the administration’s proposed $1 trillion fiscal 2026 defense budget — a plan that hinges the bulk of its Defense Department
Senate appropriators grill Kennedy on biomedical research
Durbin, D-Ill., asked Kennedy if he knew the No. 1 cause of preventable death in America, a reference to tobacco, which has been at the top in the U.S. for decades.
HHS to look at environmental toxins as cause of autism
It reported Wednesday that among 8-year-old children, 1 in 36 had autism in 2020, compared to 1 in 31 in 2022.Â
US, Europe diverge on infectious disease messaging
The ECDC reported 28,791 cases of measles between March 1, 2024, and Feb. 28, 2025.
No sign of Texas measles outbreak slowing, contrary to RFK Jr.’s claims
"We always see smaller numbers in the current 1-2 weeks because of diagnostic and reporting delays," he said.
Kennedy pledges to find autism cause by September
Kennedy stated that the most recent child autism rates "are going to be about 1 in 31" compared to 1 in 10,000 when he was a child. He did not specify the source for those figures.
Measles outbreak sends warning for future of infectious disease
One-year-old River Jacobs is held by his mother, Caitlin Fuller, while he receives an MMR vaccine March 1, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas.
The MAHA movement in Congress: Who and what to watch
The Department of Health and Human Services froze through Feb. 1 most external communications coming from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food
Trump directive on grants spurs uncertainty for health programs
The freeze could also apply to hundreds of other programs funded by HHS, which is the largest grantmaking agency in the federal government, making up a large portion of the more than $1 trillion the federal
HHS pauses communications through Feb. 1, memo says
The Department of Health and Human Services directed agency leaders to halt external communications, including press releases, guidance and social media, through Feb. 1, according to a memo from the acting
How RFK Jr. drove mistrust of a cancer prevention vaccine
He argues in most cases it can be prevented through regular pap smears and points out that less than 1 percent of women will get that cancer, which is highly treatable.Â
How RFK Jr.’s health proposals would stack up in practice
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally former President Donald Trump at Macomb Community College on Nov. 1 in Warren, Mich. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)