Public Citizen had to sue to see Trump's 'most favored nation' drug-price deals with Pfizer and Eli Lilly. The heavily redacted contracts carve Lilly's blockbuster weight-loss drugs out of the Medicaid discount, let Lilly stop selling drugs abroad to escape a lower price, and let Pfizer calculate its own prices for newly launched drugs.
Up to 25,000 legal immigrants in New Jersey — refugees, trafficking victims, domestic violence survivors, family of veterans — could lose Medicaid on Oct. 1 under Trump's budget bill. All three New Jersey Republicans in the House voted for it twice, and Van Drew had signed a letter promising he wouldn't.
Louisiana's health department told lawmakers that as many as 58,000 Medicaid recipients may have to take extra steps to keep their coverage when Trump's budget bill work requirements begin in January — 46,000 of them with no income at all. Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, Clay Higgins and Julia Letlow voted for the law twice.
Under deals announced September 18, UPMC and NYU Langone will stop providing gender-affirming care to minors and pay the government $9.45 million combined. Both denied wrongdoing. The Justice Department had spent a year demanding the private records of trans children — and losing in court.
Barrett's ad says he doesn't 'take a dime' from health insurance companies. His own FEC reports show he refunded one insurer PAC and kept two others. And his votes let premium help expire and cut Medicaid for up to 14,621 people in his district.
A new tracker from States United and Grant Witness counts $177 billion in grants the Trump administration has cancelled, frozen or slowed since 2025 — $58.9 billion in health, $36.6 billion in food aid, $29.8 billion in disaster relief. Texas lost more than any state but California.
On September 16 the House passed the PROOF Act, 217-207. It orders states to turn over whatever Medicaid, SNAP and other benefit records Attorney General Todd Blanche asks for in writing, with no judge involved. A federal court had already blocked the Trump administration from cutting food stamp funding to states that refused to hand over recipient data. 185 of the members who voted yes have report cards on this site.
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This summer, tainted lettuce infected nearly 13,000 Americans, put 570 in the hospital and killed two.
Robert Aderholt, Speaker Mike Johnson and 11 other tracked Republicans requested a GAO review of abortion coverage in Obamacare plans. Aderholt and Chris Smith then used it to demand 'full Hyde protections for all ACA plans.' GAO's own summary says federal law already bars tax credits from paying for abortion, that insurers must price that coverage at no less than $1 a month, and that almost every plan that covers it is in a state whose law requires coverage.
