8 entries in the ledger
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...
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns of Massachusetts on July 30 denied a preliminary injunction sought by 26 states and the District of Columbia against the interim final rule implementing Medicaid work requirements...
On July 21, 2026, the Department of Health and Human Services deferred more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota, withholding roughly $867.5 million from California and about $199 million from...
Vice President JD Vance, acting in his role as the administration's fraud czar, announced that the federal government would defer $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California. CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz described...
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Human Services Commissioner Shireen Gandhi sued the Trump administration on March 3, 2026, in federal district court in Minneapolis, seeking a temporary restraining...
On December 19, 2025, Trump announced pricing agreements with nine major pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck, GSK, Novartis, and Sanofi, tying U.S. prices for certain drugs to the...
Trump signed a major tax-and-spending law, sometimes referred to as the "One Big Beautiful Bill," which extended existing tax cuts, increased immigration-enforcement and defense funding, and reduced projected spending on...
On June 29, 2025, Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced he would not seek re-election in 2026. The announcement came a day after he was one of two Republicans to vote against advancing the Senate version of the...