23 entries in the ledger
In two decisions issued Oct. 7, 2026, the Government Accountability Office concluded the Trump administration violated the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 by withholding appropriated funds without notifying Congress. At...
Army physician Theresa Long testified in an August 14 deposition, published by Politico on September 3, that she is working with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to examine...
On Sept. 2, 2026, a coalition led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta - 21 attorneys general plus the governor of Pennsylvania - filed a 60-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts...
Documents obtained by the Associated Press and The Guardian through a Reporters Committee lawsuit include a Jan. 20, 2019 letter from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of Children's Health Defense, to Samoa's prime...
Five current and former administration officials told Reuters on Aug. 24 that Trump's frustration over what he considers a likely contributor to autism drove the Aug. 10 executive order cutting the federal childhood...
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington ruled on Aug. 19 that the Department of Health and Human Services may not implement sweeping new conditions on grants under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program while...
Defense and Health and Human Services officials told The New York Times this week that the administration was recruiting Pentagon lawyers who had recently retired or planned to retire soon to serve as attorneys for...
HHS proposed a $150 million contract to Burke Law Group, a Houston firm with two immigration specialists among 24 attorneys, to represent roughly 1,800 unaccompanied migrant children in federal shelters. The firm's...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a final rule Aug. 11 barring federal Medicaid dollars for what it calls "sex-rejecting procedures" — including puberty suppression, cross-sex hormone therapy and...
President Trump signed an executive order on August 10, 2026 establishing what the White House calls “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations.” Per the White House fact sheet issued the same day, the order...