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Thanks to criminal Trump about a third of Americans just lost their healthcare. If you are on Medicaid you may be one of them. If you have a child that depends on food support, or an elderly person who gets some kind of federal aid, they are cut off as well. What can you do? Please call (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senators and Representative, and register your outrage and displeasure over what Trump has done.
Hospital hallway corridor lined with medical equipment. Credit: Catherine McQueen / Getty
President Donald Trump’s move to freeze federal funding for a massive number of government programs seems to have impacted Medicaid payment systems across the country, potentially locking 72 million Americans out of their health insurance. “Can confirm. Connecticut’s Medicaid payment system has been turned off. Doctors and hospitals cannot get paid,” wrote Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut in a post on the social media site X. “Discussions ongoing about whether services can continue.”
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden said on X that his staff has confirmed that Medicaid portals in all 50 states are down due to the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze.
The U.S. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) did not immediately respond to request for comment from Quartz.
“The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage. We have confirmed no payments have been affected — they are still being processed and sent,” White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt wrote in a post on X on Tuesday.
Leavitt added, that the White House expects that […]
As part of his effort to dismantle the American government and turn it into a dictatorship, Trump has isolated the United States from the international healthcare network maintained by the World Health Organization. This is the organization that coordinates amongst countries when a pandemic occurs. This is the organization that shares research on new medical developments. The impact of this withdrawal will be devastating.
US public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization (WHO), effective immediately.
A US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all agency staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await further guidance”.
Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa, as well as brewing threats from around the world. It also comes as health authorities around the world are monitoring bird flu outbreaks among US livestock.
The Associated Press viewed a copy of Nkengasong’s memo, which said the stop-work policy applied to “all CDC staff engaging with WHO through technical working groups, coordinating centers, advisory boards, cooperative agreements or other means – in person or virtual”. It also says CDC staff are not allowed to visit WHO offices.
Donald Trump last week issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from WHO, but that did not take immediate effect. Leaving WHO […]
Apparently, there will be no civil rights protection during the Trump regime. Day by day we are becoming a nation I don’t even recognize. I have had two readers currently living in Europe who just wrote to tell me they were renouncing their U.S. citizenship, and taking on the citizenship of the country in which they are living.
The U.S. Department of Justice seal is seen onstage at the U.S. Department of Justice on December 5, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Credit: Samuel Corum / Getty
he U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has directed its Civil Rights Division to halt ongoing litigation and refrain from initiating new cases as President Donald Trump embarks on a purge of federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs in his first days in office.
This pause comes as Harmeet Dhillon, a Republican lawyer known for advocating conservative causes and serving as the GOP’s national committeewoman for California, awaits Senate confirmation to head the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
“They are trying to eradicate civil rights,” Khadijah Silver, supervising attorney for civil rights at Lawyers For Good Government, said on LinkedIn. “And we must not stand for it.”
The memo directs Civil Rights Division supervisor Kathleen Wolfe to ensure that attorneys avoid filing “any new complaints, motions to intervene, agreed-upon remands, amicus briefs, or statements of interest.” According to the memo, the pause is being enacted to “ensure that the President’s appointees or designees have the opportunity […]
In full accord with Project 2025, the American government is being restructured so that only Whites, and preferably males, are treated fairly. All DEI issues or basic civil rights are no longer protected. The United States is becoming South Africa in the 1960s.
President Donald Trump’s administration has called for any federal worker employed for DEI-related efforts to be put on paid leave. Credit: Angelina Katsanis / Politicco
Federal government websites devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion went offline Wednesday as the White House threatened “adverse consequences” for agencies that fail to report DEI-related information within 10 days.
The sites went down a day after the Office of Personnel Management sent a memo to all agencies Tuesday calling for all DEI workers to be placed on paid leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. One of the instructions in the letter directed agency heads to remove “all outward facing media” related to DEI work by 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Emails sent to agency staff across the government — including those working at the departments of Health and Human Services, State, Agriculture, Homeland Security and others — on Wednesday used OPM language that said it is “aware of efforts by some in the government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.” The emails call for employees to report any change in […]
If you are a Native American you are being warned to carry documentation of your citizenship and tribal affiliation on your person because Native Americans are being stopped by criminal Trump’s immigration patrols because they aren’t pale Whites. That’s the new America.
Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley. Credit: Jose Luis Magana / AP
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.
The reports, which have caused panic amongst tribal communities in both states, come amid the Trump administration’s attempt to ramp up undocumented immigrant arrests nationwide and amass a larger force to carry out the president’s deportation pledge. CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.
The reported raids and the exact number of Navajo and other Indigenous tribal citizens who were apprehended are still under investigation, Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley told CNN. It is unclear if Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other law enforcement entities were conducting the apprehensions. ICE has not responded to CNN’s request for comment.
Navajo Nation officials have contacted the Department of Homeland Security, the governors of Arizona and New Mexico, and ICE to address the reports, […]
Trump’s villein Homan who is running the everyone but Whites to be checked immigration raids has authorized raiding elementary and middle schools. Think about this for a minute. You are in third-grade arithmetic class and suddenly a bunch of men in dark clothes and gun protection vests with some big letters on their backs burst into your classroom. And do what with a classroom full of eight-year-olds? Does that sound scary, something you will never forget? And what is all this costing you and I with our taxes?
TomHoman doubles down on ICE activity in schools: ‘If they don’t like it, change the law’ Credit: KPIC
Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, defended the administration’s plans to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into schools.
Homan joined ABC’s “This Week,” where he was asked about the logistics behind the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.
Host Martha Raddatz pointed out that the administration said it will “no longer tell ICE agents they have to avoid sensitive locations, including schools, hospitals, churches.”
“What criminals are hiding in schools? Middle schools, elementary schools — you gonna to go into those?” Raddatz asked.
Trump has formally authorized ICE to begin arresting people in schools and churches, rescinding a guideline that prevented arrests in “sensitive” areas. They have begun making arrests in various communities.
Homan defended the practice to Raddatz and said the arrests are being made with planning.
“How many MS-13 members are the age 14 to 17? Many of them,” Homan said.
“So look, if it’s a national security threat, public safety threat and what, […]
Marina Dunbar , Staff Writer - The Guardian (U.K.)
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Healthcare is going to deteriorate more in this country, as well as becoming more expensive As this article describes middle and lower-class Americans will be particularly affected.
Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office in Washington DC on 20 January 2025. Credit: White House Handout / Planet Pix / Zuma Press Wire / Rex / Shutterstock
Within his first 48 hours back in office, Trump has signed several executive orders that threaten the healthcare of millions of Americans.
Amid a flurry of executive orders, some of which were signed live on TV on inauguration night, the US president issued several orders that repeal Biden-era directives that had expanded healthcare access and options for lower-income and middle-class Americans.
Those orders are expected to affect the medical insurance coverage for upwards of 20m people in the US.
“The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government,” Trump said in the official statement, which referenced several health-related orders.The statement goes on to accuse diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies of having “corrupted” institutions for Americans.
Those people whose coverage is now deemed at risk are the roughly 24 million Americans who have purchased their health insurance via the Affordable Care […]
Trump has fired the independent Inspector Generals whose task is to oversee the integrity of the American government. Why was this done? The answer is obvious. Criminal Trump did it so that his villeins can create the corrupted government agencies he wants without any hassle or oversight. The already corrupted American government is about to get much more corrupt.
A senior White House official confirmed to POLITICO that “some” inspectors general had been fired. Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
President Donald Trump fired multiple independent federal watchdogs, known as inspectors general, in a Friday night purge, removing a significant layer of accountability as he asserts his control over the federal government in his second term, according to two people with knowledge of the dismissals, granted anonymity to share details they were not authorized to speak about publicly.
The ousters set up what will likely be one of Trump’s first major court battles since taking office. At least one of the fired inspectors general — the State Department’s Cardell Richardson Sr. — has told staff he plans to show up to work on Monday, arguing that the firings are illegal, according to a person familiar with the situation who requested anonymity to reveal the internal discussions. A State Department spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
One of the two people briefed on the dismissals said the number is at least a dozen and includes inspectors general at the departments of […]
