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Trump's Health Department Broke the Law by Sitting on $78 Million Congress Gave It for Health Care Research, the Government's Watchdog Rules

Trump's Health Department Broke the Law by Sitting on $78 Million Congress Gave It for Health Care Research, the Government's Watchdog Rules

The Government Accountability Office found that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s HHS illegally withheld more than $78 million that Congress approved last year for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — the agency whose research helped hospitals cut deadly infections. It has funded almost no new research since, and has gone from about 300 staff to about 90.

Four Republican Senate Candidates Wouldn't Say How They'd Stop Social Security's 22% Benefit Cut. Ashley Hinson Brought Up Millennials' Savings Habits.

States Newsroom asked Senate candidates in nine close races what they'd do about the automatic Social Security cut coming in 2032. Dan Sullivan, Roger Marshall, Michael Whatley and Jon Husted didn't respond. Ken Paxton, Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson offered promises with no plan — weeks after Paxton was recorded telling lobbyists 'we have to suck it up' on spending cuts.

Trump's Budget Bill Could Cost Up to 253,000 Minnesotans Their Health Coverage. Tom Emmer Wants Deeper Cuts: 'It Doesn't Even Scratch the Surface.'

Trump's Budget Bill Could Cost Up to 253,000 Minnesotans Their Health Coverage. Tom Emmer Wants Deeper Cuts: 'It Doesn't Even Scratch the Surface.'

The House's No. 3 Republican told the St. Cloud Times that the spending cuts in Trump's budget bill were just the start — 'It doesn't even scratch the surface' — and government needs to be reinvented. The same bill is projected to leave 10 million more Americans uninsured — and the budget office says it adds $3.4 trillion to deficits. He also says he's stopped meeting constituents in public.

Brad Finstad Wouldn't Meet With a Veteran Whose Business Was Hurt by Tariffs. Then His Attack Ad Erased Her From a Photo and Put in What Appears to Be an AI-Generated Tim Walz.

Brad Finstad Wouldn't Meet With a Veteran Whose Business Was Hurt by Tariffs. Then His Attack Ad Erased Her From a Photo and Put in What Appears to Be an AI-Generated Tim Walz.

Beth Benike, Minnesota's 2025 Small Business Person of the Year, asked Brad Finstad for help with Trump's tariffs and twice asked to meet him in Washington. He declined. His new attack ad uses a photo taken in her warehouse, with her cut out and what appears to be an AI-generated Gov. Tim Walz in her place.