The Trump administration has announced the initial disbursement from its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services' budget request for the 2026 fiscal year consolidates the department's 28 divisions to 15 to make way for a new "institution of public health." The new ...

The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.” By Apoorva Mandavilli The Trump administration’s proposed budget for the ...

Vice President JD Vance has said there is "a mental health crisis" in the U.S. After a shooter killed two children and wounded more than a dozen other people at Annunciation Catholic Church in ...

The Department of Health and Human Services' budget request for the 2026 fiscal year consolidates the department's 28 divisions to 15 to make way for a new "institution of public health." The new ...