Saturday, August 22, 2026

Tag: CHIP

Trump slashes $7 billion from children’s health program

The move is being called "despicable on every level."

Children’s Health Insurance Program in trouble – funding to end in January

"We are unable to say with certainty whether there is enough funding for every state to continue its CHIP program through March 31, 2018.”

Bernie slams McConnell’s efforts to end defense and non-defense spending parity

“When history looks back on this period, I do not want people to see a U.S. Congress which worked overtime to protect billionaires and large corporations but turned its back on providing health care to vulnerable children.”

Here’s the first state to freeze enrollment to Children’s Health Insurance...

In six states – Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Utah and Virginia – officials have said they will end the state programs completely if Congress doesn't approve funding.

The Republican Party’s sickness of the soul

There is, indeed, a “poverty of spirit” at work here.

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The Food and Drug Administration sign at the agency's White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. Photo: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Republican chair of the Senate health panel says he has strong concerns about Trump’s...

Heidi Overton stood beside Trump at the signing of an order cutting the shots recommended for all children to 11, and she would need to clear a committee where Republicans hold a single seat

Why we evolved to dream at night and what dreams mean

We forget most of our dreams. So why do we have them?
The west front of the United States Capitol. Photo: Noclip (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

The baddest, bloodlust bullies having a very bad year

How goonish egotism backfires, Befouled by self-inflicted quagmires!

Elon Musk’s billionaire welfare: How the world’s richest man built his empire on government...

An extensive Washington Post investigation has revealed a very different reality—one where Musk’s business empire has been deeply dependent on taxpayer money.
Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia, a property of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the lead plaintiff in the case. Photo: ajay_suresh / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court upholds order limiting ICE arrests at Quaker, Sikh and Baptist houses of...

The Justice Department never argued a compelling government interest before the district court, and the Fourth Circuit held that defense waived.