HHS staff cuts threaten asthma, tobacco control, and lung disease efforts, disproportionately affecting Black communities. Health outcomes may worsen.

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Employees across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have begun receiving notices of dismissal in a major ...

Two U.S. health department offices that coordinate efforts to eliminate health disparities are being shut down completely as part of the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal healthcare ...

3/27/25 (LAPost.com) — President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to dismantle the Department of Education has elicited a significant concern among educators and students, particularly ...

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Trump on Friday said that “special needs funding” for students will be overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency funnels more than $18 billion in supplemental funding ...

The future of the United States Department of Education is at risk, as efforts to eliminate it gain momentum. Changes under President Donald Trump‘s administration seemed inevitable, given his ...

President Donald Trump’s order calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department has complex implications. The Republican president has argued the federal office hasn’t improved ...

After slashing its staff by nearly half, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to further dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. Describing the “breathtaking failures” of the ...

President Donald Trump has ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin the work to dismantle the Department of Education. An executive order that was ceremoniously announced on Thursday ...