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Andy Harris' FDA Budget Blocks Enforcement of a Rule Built to Trace Food Outbreaks Until 2028. This Summer, Tainted Lettuce Infected 12,883 People.

Andy Harris' FDA Budget Blocks Enforcement of a Rule Built to Trace Food Outbreaks Until 2028. This Summer, Tainted Lettuce Infected 12,883 People.

The Food Traceability Rule would make food companies keep digital records so investigators can find the source of an outbreak fast. The farm-and-FDA spending law from Harris' subcommittee says no money can be used to enforce it before July 20, 2028. This summer, a cyclospora outbreak traced to Mexican lettuce put 570 people in the hospital. Harris doesn't appear to have said a word.

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Andy Biggs Wrote a Bill to Abolish Arizona's Medicaid Program. His Plan Wouldn't Even Fully Cover the Disabled: 'You Can't Even Cover Them.'

Andy Biggs Wrote a Bill to Abolish Arizona's Medicaid Program. His Plan Wouldn't Even Fully Cover the Disabled: 'You Can't Even Cover Them.'

In 2011, state Sen. Andy Biggs sponsored SB 1519 to end AHCCCS, the program covering nearly 1.4 million Arizonans. His replacement wouldn't have fully covered the roughly 100,000 people with severe mental illness and disabilities who relied on it — on purpose, he said, because covering them meant no savings. Now he wants to be governor.

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On September 18 a New Trump Rule Starts Counting Medicaid, CHIP and Food Stamps Against Green Card Applications. The Government's Own Analysis Says the Savings Come From Mixed-Status Households Dropping Off.

On September 18 a New Trump Rule Starts Counting Medicaid, CHIP and Food Stamps Against Green Card Applications. The Government's Own Analysis Says the Savings Come From Mixed-Status Households Dropping Off.

A new Homeland Security rule lets officers treat a family's enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP or SNAP as grounds to deny lawful permanent residency. The department's own analysis says federal and state spending could fall by $13.05 billion a year — from households that include U.S. citizens.

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