The spending bills now being put together by Republican-led House will include “brutal budget cuts” that would harm social programs as well as research, Senate Democrats said in a recently released list of programs likely to be cut in the House appropriations bills.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist whom Trump has chosen to run HHS, would have the capacity to roll back core public health protections, including protections for people with cancer, and dismantle research related to infectious diseases, public health experts warn.
