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.
President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the post of secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, placing the vaccine skeptic in charge of a vast empire of research, engineering, regulatory, and health care agencies.
