by Arthur Allen | Jul 29, 2026 | AI, Department of Health and Human Services, health care, Hospitals, medical care, News, Public Health, Research, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services
The Trump administration has effectively shut down most of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s activities, closing the spigot on federal funding estimated to have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars over the past 27 years by improving medical practice. In a July 15 letter, the small Department of Health and Human Services agency known as AHRQ told researchers it was…
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by Sasha Abramsky | May 7, 2026 | budget cuts, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Donald Trump, EPA, firing, Layoffs, Mass Layoffs, National Science Board, National Science Foundation, News Analysis, Research, Science, Trump Administration
Over the last few weeks, the Trump administration’s relentless war on the U.S.’s scientific infrastructure has picked up speed. The New York Times’s Lisa Friedman reported in late April that over the past months, more than 1,500 top scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development have either been laid off, pushed into early retirement…
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