Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched a show geared toward teaching Americans how to cook healthy, inexpensive meals. “Thanks to President Trump, we flipped the food pyramid and put real food back where it belongs: at the center of the American plate,” Kennedy said in a video he posted...
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Thursday voted to advance President Trump's nominees to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR). The committee voted 12-10 to move forward with Erica Schwartz's nomination to serve as the next director of...
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it would release $600 million in funding appropriated by Congress to an immunization program that serves children in poor countries. The move is a reversal of a decision last year from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to halt U.S. funding to Geneva-based Gavi, the Vaccine...
Democratic political strategist James Carville said this week that the public “didn’t f---ing learn anything” from the publicly released diary entries of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped lead the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The main thing we learned from the release of his personal texts or emails or whatever it was, is we...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief White House medical adviser, was “a little fixated on his own fame.” “I do think it's entirely appropriate to really hold Fauci accountable, but I don't think it's really appropriate to pound an 85-year-old man, 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 10...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he was surprised Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment during Wednesday's hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, despite a preemptive pardon from former President Biden. “Were you surprised that he decided now to take the Fifth, given you guys have had back-and-forths in testimony previously,...
Sens. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Andy Kim (D-N.J.) on Wednesday introduced legislation that attempts to improve identification and treatment for children who stutter, with an assist from former NBA player Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. The legislation, titled the Kidd’s Stuttering Act, proposes directing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to add stuttering and fluency screening...
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday her department will invest $25 million towards opening a new sterile fly dispersal facility in Arizona to combat New World Screwworm (NWS). During a visit to the Grand Canyon State, Rollins joined Arizona GOP Reps. Andy Biggs, Juan Ciscomani and Eli Crane to tout the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s...
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Wednesday he is launching a probe into Dr. Anthony Fauci after the longtime health official invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during a Senate hearing about the COVID-19 pandemic. “Fauci's lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable,” Uthmeier wrote on social media. “My office is launching an...