Letter: Administration Policies Are Hurting This Country

Letter: Administration policies are hurting this country

Those who worry about their health should know that in order to cut “wasteful” government expenditures, the Trump administration has eliminated 20,000 jobs at Health and Human Services, and 30,000 Veterans Affairs jobs. Jim O’Neill, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is not a doctor or a scientist. His expertise is technology and business investing. PBS says $12 billion has been cut from the National Institutes of Health. Ye…

Letter to the editor: Democrats save NC from Trump health cuts, Brunswick Beacon

Brunswick Beacon, 09.18.25In March, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services canceled nearly 700 congressionally-approved grants nationwide, worth $11 billion. The funds were used to vaccinate people, reduce health disparities between urban and rural communities, upgrade outdated systems for detecting infectious disease outbreaks and hire community health workers. Federal funding accounts for over half of state and local health department…