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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to testify before lawmakers for the first time as health secretary on Wednesday, where he will also confront calls from a key Republican to reassure Americans about his agenda.
An emergency ruling by a federal judge in California amounted to the broadest effort yet to halt the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal government.
The C.D.C. delivered $750 million annually to state and local health departments for emergency work. The program was eliminated in the Trump administration’s budget blueprint.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins said the number of V.A. employees to be cut could change, and accused Democrats of trying to frighten veterans.
“We understand this news will be hard,” Claire Shipman, Columbia University’s acting president, wrote in a note to the community.
President Trump has ended a tariff loophole that generated lots of business for delivery companies shipping inexpensive goods from China to the U.S.
The lawsuit, led by New York, argues that the slashing of grants and staff at the Department of Health and Human Services amounts to the “illegal dismantling” of the agency.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, announced the agency was “shifting its scientific expertise.”
The agency plans, for now, to use attrition, including retirements and voluntary resignations, to reduce the size of the C.I.A. instead of more mass firings.
The former agency directors say current employees will face an “impossible task” to maintain service just as hurricane season begins.