Dem states sue Trump administration over sudden cancellation of $11B in health funds • Tennessee Lookout
A coalition of Democratic state officials sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over a plan to cut the Department of Health and Human Services’ grants of more than $11 billion. In Washington, Republican chairman and top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee wrote HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A federal […]
Trump administration freezes $8M in family planning health care grants for low-income Tennesseans • Tennessee Lookout
The Trump administration suddenly suspended an estimated $8 million federal grant on Monday that provides family planning, cancer screening and preventive care to low-income Tennessee. Since the second half of 2023, more than 30,000 Tennessees have access to healthcare through affected organizations. Planned Parenthood has announced that nine of its affiliates, including affiliates that fund […]
Trump administration targets Planned Parenthood’s family-planning grants • Tennessee Lookout
According to Guttmacher Institute estimates that over 1 million people seeking care, including birth control and sexually transmitted disease and cancer testing, could be affected by withholding Title X funds to planned custody clinics nationwide. Planned Parenthood State Affiliates said it was notified that funds received under the title of the X Family Planning Program […]
Arizona Court Dismisses Right-Wing Group’s Election Administration Lawsuit
Tucson, Arizona early voting and voting drop-off sign board for English and Spanish. (Adobe Co., Ltd.) An Arizona judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to support election policy in Yabapai County. The decision hit and challenged the right-wing organization founded by Stephen Miller. The judge found that he lacked a position to file a lawsuit […]
Biden Administration Was Secretly More Involved In Ukraine Than It Let On, Investigation Reveals
The United States was much more directly involved in supporting Ukrainian forces towards Russia than previously understood, a New York Times investigation revealed Monday. Ukrainian American support was a tool of the power of an Eastern European state that injured or killed more than 700,000 Russian soldiers during the war. According to To NYT. The […]
Column: Reagan administration took security seriously, unlike Trump
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First Oil And Gas Lease Sales On Public Lands Yield Nearly $40,000,000 In Early Win For Trump Administration
The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced Thursday that it generated more than $39 million in revenue from oil and gas lease sales on public land in the first few months of 2025. Press release from an agent say These sales “emphasize the sector’s continued commitment to responsible energy development in relation to public lands […]
Judges Ruling Against Trump Administration Have Numerous Conflicts Of Interest
The judge blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to promote the deportation of gang members, and took part in a mock trial with former vice president Kamala Harris’ husband. Supreme Court Judge James Boasberg of the DC District Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from using the alien enemy law, a wartime law of the 18th […]
The AP and Trump administration renew court fight over White House press access • Tennessee Lookout
WASHINGTON — The Associated Press and the Trump administration held discussions in federal court on Thursday in a lawsuit that could change decades-old established press access in the White House. District of Columbia US District Judge Trevor McFadden has heard more about Associated Press White House reporters and photographers joining his competitors and witnessing President […]
Trump administration to roll back many EPA regulations, revisit contested water rule • Tennessee Lookout
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to rescind more than 30 regulations, including those aimed at reducing carbon emissions and controlling pollution, and seeking to redefine federal government-enforceable water and wetlands, administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday. The agency will take 31 steps to cover many issues equivalent to “the biggest deregulation announcement in US […]
