Tag : Federal Budget (US)

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Republican Bill to End E.V. Tax Credit Could Hurt G.M. and Ford

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Sales of electric vehicles have been rising in recent years, partly because of a $7,500 tax credit from the federal government that helps lower the...
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Trump Signs Executive Order Asking Companies to Lower Drug Prices

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President Trump on Monday signed an executive order asking drugmakers to voluntarily reduce the prices of key medicines in the United States. But the order...
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Local Officials Brace for Loss of Disaster Preparedness Funding

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St. Louis has been battered by two tornadoes in the past two months. A fire shut down a new nursing home last month in Enterprise,...
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Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health

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The Trump administration has scrapped more than $800 million worth of research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people, abandoning studies of cancers and viruses that...
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Trump Budget Cuts Funding for Chronic Disease Prevention

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease “epidemic” would be a cornerstone of his Make America Healthy...
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Trump Budget Draft Ends Narcan Program and Other Addiction Measures

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The opioid overdose reversal medication commercially known as Narcan saves hundreds of thousands of lives a year and is routinely praised by public health experts...
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As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap?

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As the reality sets in that the United States is drastically diminishing its foreign assistance to developing countries, an urgent conversation is starting among governments,...