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Government Ordered To Scrub Federal Workers’ COVID Vaccine Status In Legal Settlement
Government agencies will soon begin scrubbing federal employees’ COVID-19 vaccination records from their personnel files after a four-year-long legal battle over former President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Feds For Freedom announced Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) that requires the Office of Personnel Management to direct federal agencies to expunge personnel records related to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, including
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Trump To Reinstate Service Members Who Were Canned For Refusing COVID Vaccination
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Monday to reinstate service members who were canned from the military for refusing the COVID-19 vaccination. Service members, whether active or reserve, will be restored to their prior rank, receiving full back pay and benefits, according to a fact sheet provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discharged over 8,000 members for refusing the vaccination, and only 43 returned to servi
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Kennedy to halt $500 million in vaccine projects
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans Tuesday to cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects. In a statement from his office, the longtime vaccine critic said all projects to be halted use mRNA technology. “After reviewing the science and consulting top experts at NIH and FDA, HHS has determined that mRNA technology poses more risk than benefits for these respiratory viruses,” Kennedy said in a video posted on social platform X, referring to Covid-19
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Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates, a longtime cornerstone of public health policy for keeping schoolchildren and adults safe from infectious diseases. State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision Wednesday, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions on people’s rights that hamper parents’ ability to make health decisions for their children. “People have a rig
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Idaho Republican pushes ban of mRNA vaccines against COVID, gene therapy products
A freshman Idaho lawmaker wants to ban most COVID-19 shots for the next decade, with a bill rooted in misconceptions about vaccines that thrived during the pandemic. The bill from Sen. Brandon Shippy, R-New Plymouth, would place a moratorium on “human gene therapy products” until July 2035. The bill defines those as products that include nucleic acids, “genetically modified microorganisms” and other “engineered site-specific nucleases.” The bill seeks to ban most forms of gen
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Steve Bannon, US hospitals join GOP rebellion over Medicaid cuts
A quiet rebellion among Republicans representing working-class and low-income areas against President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda has picked up some powerful new allies: US hospitals and conservative agitator Steve Bannon. The party’s leaders have worked to placate budget hawks and Republicans in high-tax and high-income areas who have dominated the GOP debate over the extension of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and the corresponding cost-cutting crusade led by billionaire Elon
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SCOTUS Allows Enforcement of ACA’s Preventive-Care Mandates But Opens Door for Political Influence: Key Points for Group Health Plans
The federal government may continue to enforce the Affordable Care Act’s preventive-care mandates, thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management . In a 6-3 bipartisan opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, SCOTUS rejected constitutional challenges brought by a Texas business and others to the structure of a federal health task force that, as SCOTUS put it, issues “preventive-service recommendations of critical importance to patients, do
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ICYMI: Democrats Blocked GOP Measure to ‘Lower Premiums by Nearly Double’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, Breitbart recently featured Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Congressman Morgan Griffith (VA-09), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, who shared ways in which Republicans have already voted to lower health care premiums that Democrats opposed in the Working Families Tax Cuts. In Case You Missed It: “House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) and
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MRNA Vaccines, Once a Trump Boast, Now Face Attacks From Some in GOP
Researchers racing to develop bird flu vaccines for humans have turned to a cutting-edge technology that enabled the rapid development of lifesaving covid shots. This story also ran on ABC News . It can be republished for free . There’s a catch: The mRNA technology faces growing doubts among Republicans, including people around President Donald Trump. Legislation aimed to ban or limit mRNA vaccines was introduced this year by GOP lawmakers in at least seven states. In some c
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An emerging shutdown deal doesn’t extend expiring health subsidies. Here’s what could happen to them
A legislative package that could end the weekslong government shutdown leaves out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly for millions
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