The U. Department of Health and Human Services is launching an investigation into all programs to ensure no taxpayer money is spent on elective abortions, the agency announced in its first communique since President Donald Trump took office. The move comes days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Republicans have long railed against the millions of dollars that flow every year to Planned Parenthood and its clinics, which offer abortions but also birth control and cancer and disease screenings, among other things.
Federal law prohibits taxpayer dollars from paying for most abortions. Trump says he wants Congress to ramp up spending on border security and extend and expand his tax cuts that are set to expire next year. The South Carolina resident will be the first openly gay individual in the role, a historic first as Trump seeks novel ways to implement a policy agenda driven by both billionaire business leaders with concerns over regulations and a populist base that wants government leaders to fight for them.
Bessent, a past supporter of Democrats who once worked for George Soros, has become an enthusiastic supporter of Trump. President Donald Trump opened up his Monday speech to House Republicans, who are gathering in Miami for their annual policy retreat, by ticking through his first week back in the White House.
The president went through his various executive orders and directives, noting the start of deportations of unauthorized immigrants, a freeze in federal hiring, his withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and his opposition to government support for electric vehicles, among other policies. After some patients reported being told their treatments were suspended, the agency said clinical trials are continuing in the NIH hospital and others around the country.
So are NIH laboratory experiments that began prior to Jan. The Trump Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump. The move, which follows the reassignment of multiple senior career officials across divisions, was made even though rank-and-file prosecutors by tradition remain in their positions across presidential administrations and are not punished because of their involvement in sensitive investigations.
