Aflo Images/Aflo Images/Getty Images After wandering through the desert for two days, a Guatemalan woman gave birth in an Arizona hospital. Border Patrol agents stood mere feet away, hoping to quickly deport her under the Trump administration’s “expedited removal” policy. The woman was apprehended by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) in the Arizona desert last...
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Federal Government No Longer Participating In Safe to Sleep Campaign
Vilin Visuals/E+/Getty Images The Trump administration has made the elimination of so-called “waste” and “fraud” a point of pride in the early days of the president’s second term. In addition to the 130,000 federal employees fired or bought out since January, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports the administration has expressed a desire...
Trump Administration Cuts $1 Billion In Mental Health Funding For Schools
Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision/Getty Images The Trump administration has notified schools receiving Biden-era mental health grants that the checks will not be delivered after this year, putting an end to a $1 billion funding project intended to reduce gun violence in schools. The funding came from the most significant piece of bipartisan gun violence legislation in decades,...
AAP Pushes Back On HHS Guidelines for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria
Olga Pankova/Moment/Getty Images On May 1, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a more than 400-page report on the efficacy of current treatments for gender affirming care in children. Given the current administration’s outspoken views on trans and gender-nonconforming children, it is perhaps not surprising that the report — which does not...



