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President Donald Trump signs his tax and spending bill into law during a 4th of July celebration with military families on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington D.C., on Friday July 4, 2025.

Budget Cuts, Deaths, and the First Anniversary of Trump’s Disastrous Budget

by Matt Watkins July 4, 2026July 3, 2026

July 4 is America’s birthday and the first anniversary of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the health care cuts that followed.

Political Science: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listen during an Oval Office event on health care affordability, April 23, 2026. Kennedy’s HHS has become central to the administration’s campaign against research it deems ideological. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump Escalates War on Science

by Merrill Goozner June 8, 2026June 5, 2026

Consensus, Censored: Under Acting Director Jay Bhattacharya, pictured here testifying during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing in Washington in March, the CDC refused to allow publication of a study showing the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine in reducing hospitalizations.

Censorship at the FDA, CDC

by Merrill Goozner May 8, 2026May 7, 2026

The Miracle and Mystery of Artemis II

by Bart H. Welling April 10, 2026April 10, 2026

A Year Spent Degrading Public Health. President Donald Trump listens as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 16, 2025, in Washington.

A Year Spent Degrading Health

by Merrill Goozner January 31, 2026January 31, 2026

Trump's second term.

The Ephemeral Presidency

by Bill Scher January 19, 2026February 3, 2026

Ohio MENU truck SNAP-Ed

SNAP-Ed’s Demise Exposes MAHA’s Hypocrisy

by Gillen Tener Martin October 29, 2025November 2, 2025

MAHA Whisperer: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Washington.

Republicans Should Be Apoplectic Over What Trump and Kennedy Are Doing to Tylenol

by Bill Scher September 23, 2025September 22, 2025

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. departs a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission meeting at Dept. of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2025.

RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement: Industry Takes Control

by Merrill Goozner September 11, 2025September 10, 2025

MAHA Czar RFK Jr.: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Secretary Kennedy faced bi-partisan backlash over cuts to vaccine research and availability.

RFK Jr.’s Lies Stain the Republic

by Jonathan Alter September 8, 2025September 7, 2025