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Federal Appeals Court Blocks Trump EPA From Canceling $20 Billion in Climate Grants

The preliminary ruling stopped the administration from using agency power to erase money Congress had already appropriated.

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‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

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Trump administration moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws

For decades, regular citizens and advocacy groups have filed suits that forced companies and the federal government to clean up the environment. Trump officials have moved to limit that power.

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With their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselves | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progress

www.nytimes.com

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

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MAGA's social safety net assault could turn away older voters

As Republicans slash healthcare, older Americans are pushing back

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Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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California does Medicaid home care well. They're being punished for it.

Republicans are deferring $850 million from the state because of unfounded fraud claims.

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Whistleblower: Trump administration weaponized Social Security records, tried to falsely declare 2.7 million people dead - Whistleblower Aid

New revelations from an SSA whistleblower, represented by WhistleblowerAid.org and Katz Banks Kumin, show that the administration deliberately targeted millions in illegal scheme to upend their lives

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Senators Propose Temporary Delay to OMB Grants Rule

A controversial rule that would give the Trump administration more control over grants won’t take effect until mid-December—at least—under a Senate plan to temporarily fund the government.