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Kennedy’s Plan to Send Health Officials to ‘Indian Country’ Angers Native Leaders

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he is committed to improving the Indian Health Service. Native American leaders have doubts. “It’s shameful,” one said.
Native leaders have some questions for him.

Why, they would like to know, did he lay off employees in programs aimed at supporting Native people, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy Tribes initiative? Why has he shuttered five regional offices of the Department of Health and Human Services that, by the estimate of one advocate for tribes, cover 80 percent of the nation’s Indian population?

#healthpolicy #USA #HealthSecretary

nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/poli

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has spoken often of his and his family’s longstanding commitment to Native Americans.
The New York Times · Kennedy’s Plan to Send Health Officials to ‘Indian Country’ Angers Native LeadersBy Sheryl Gay Stolberg

If the #scotus gives in to #maga and #trump requests to interfere into justified #federal #court #decisions the result will be something I do not dare to think through today - and the last thing would be writing the explicit words (again).

... the current #tariffs effects will be a faint #fart compared to the complete loss of #trust in the political system inside and outside of #USA .

Everybody around the world: OUR CHOICE TODAY WHETHER TO HAVE MUTUAL TRUST OR CHAOS!

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Putin Has Refused US -Ukraine Ceasefire for a Month

"These Russian strikes must stop. A ceasefire must be reached as soon as possible. And strong action must follow if Russia continues to stall and reject peace. How much longer will Russia toy with peace offers from the United States and Ukraine, while continuing to kill children and civilians?" President Macron

#Ukraine#Eu#Uk