POLITICO Pulse


GOP faces Planned Parenthood funding dilemma
Fri Apr 24 10:00 am
Anti-abortion activists and some GOP lawmakers warn that the push from Republican leadership for a narrow party-line bill could trigger the return of hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
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Cassidy and Kennedy face off
Thu Apr 23 10:00 am
Sen. Bill Cassidy, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s biggest Republican critic in Congress, is locked into a heated primary.
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Takeaways from RFK Jr.’s big day on the Hill
Wed Apr 22 10:00 am
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared before Congress for the fifth time in two weeks on Tuesday — touting, and defending, the president’s budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Special edition: POLITICO Health Care Summit highlights
Tue Apr 21 7:41 pm
Republicans and Democrats agree: Soaring health care costs will be a pivotal issue in the midterms. But they have very different ideas on what to do about it.
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What lies ahead for US health care
Tue Apr 21 10:00 am
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Testing MAHA’s political prowess
Mon Apr 20 10:00 am
Make America Healthy Again leaders are trying to sway a key Louisiana Senate primary.
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MAHA leaders skeptical of Trump’s CDC pick
Fri Apr 17 10:00 am
The Trump administration has selected former deputy U.S. surgeon general Erica Schwartz as its long-awaited CDC nominee.
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RFK Jr.’s Hill marathon begins
Thu Apr 16 10:00 am
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is kicking off his weeklong series of seven hearings on Capitol Hill today.
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Blue states cut ties with RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel
Wed Apr 15 10:00 am
Maryland became the latest in a procession of blue states moving to decouple their laws from a federal vaccine advisory panel overhauled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Kennedy’s complex history
Tue Apr 14 10:00 am
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has called McDonald’s food “poison,” once handed out McDonald’s hamburgers and chicken nuggets to firefighters digging through the rubble at Ground Zero in the days after the 9/11 attacks.
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MAHA approval ratings
Mon Apr 13 10:00 am
New results from The POLITICO Poll suggest that despite the controversies Kennedy and his acolytes have been embroiled in, the public isn’t too concerned.
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White House extends olive branch to MAHA
Fri Apr 10 10:00 am
The White House is mending fences with some of the loudest supporters of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement.
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