Briefing: Immigration, Medical Research Funding + more
This week at Unbreaking:
- Immigration added 23 entries to the timeline, including several related to targeting protesters and dissenters, many legal updates, and the death by suicide of twenty-year-old college student Pierre Damas Bel, after ICE forced him to wear an ankle monitor.
- Medical Research Funding added 6 events to the timeline; one is a deal to funnel billions of dollars in NIH funding to the Department of Defense.
- Medicaid added 3 items to the timeline, highlighting a new KFF analysis showing that hospitals in at least 37 states will see major payment losses — up to $7.4 billion in California alone — because of last year’s budget reconciliation law.
- Food Safety added 3 entries to the timeline, including reports that earlier this year, Congress defunded or hollowed out nearly all the USDA’s research on cyclospora, the parasite behind this summer’s outbreak.
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