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Sarah A | ساره
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hacker | infosec + human rights + anti-surveillance丨past VP Security @OpenTechFund, @internetFF, @HRW丨past fellow @mozilla @NewAmerica丨Beirut ➝ Brooklyn
The administration is attempting to halt federal support for gender-affirming healthcare for young people.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Families and doctors sue over Trump's order to halt funding for gender-affirming care
President Donald Trump's effort to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for young people is facing a legal challenge.
apnews.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Thanks to Musk and DOGE, people are at risk of losing their healthcare because of sweeping attacks on Medicare and Medicaid data and payment systems.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
DOGE broadens sweep of federal agencies, gains access to health payment systems
Associates of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have fanned out across the federal government in recent days, alarming some career employees.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Funding delays also caused issues with access to healthcare portals. Such outages can delay people from obtaining life-saving medications and healthcare, and even cause deaths.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Trump’s Funding ‘Pause’ Throws States, Health Industry Into Chaos - KFF Health News
A sweeping Trump administration order threw the nation’s health system into disarray Tuesday, as states and the health industry tried to make sense of what looked like a freeze on federal Medicaid fun...
kffhealthnews.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Federal funding disruptions are causing staffing issues at independent living centers, which help seniors and disabled people remain in their homes instead of institutions. Funding delays are also threatening Head Start programs, which support low-income families.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...
Services for disabled Americans, trans youth and refugees feel the squeeze from Trump’s early actions | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s bid to remake the federal government is already affecting some vulnerable populations in the United States, according to nonprofits and health care providers who are grappling...
www.cnn.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The Trump administration has gone further in restricting abortion than any president since Roe was decided in 1973, which will endanger abortion-seekers and others trying to access reproductive healthcare.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Trump’s Already Gone Back on His Promise To Leave Abortion to States - KFF Health News
On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump said the power to make abortion policies “has been returned to the states.” In his first two weeks in office, he’s already gone further to restrict aborti...
kffhealthnews.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Trump unlawfully fired leaders of the EEOC, NLRB, PCLOB, and CFPB — independent agencies whose work is essential to the enforcement of civil rights laws.
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
President Trump directed federal agencies to stop interpreting civil rights laws as protecting against gender-based discrimination. The president also ordered agencies to ignore recent Supreme Court precedent that sex discrimination includes gender discrimination.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The new acting head of the CFPB told staff to halt their consumer protection work, which has shielded consumers from price gouging, predatory lending, and the weaponization of medical debt in credit decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/02/03/n...
Treasury Secretary Bessent, tapped to run CFPB, orders staff to halt work
The staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was instructed by email to cease much of its work. Bessent, a wealthy Wall Street investor, replaces Rohit Chopra, who was fired on Saturday.
www.npr.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The DOJ has ordered its civil rights division to stop working while also soliciting proposals for criminal and civil investigations into companies that seek to voluntarily diversify their workforces.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice Department issues freeze for civil rights division
The directives halt ongoing civil rights cases and could jeopardize police reform agreements finalized in recent months in Minneapolis and Louisville.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Trump rescinded an Executive Order from the 1960s requiring nondiscrimination in federal contracting — a foundational legal authority requiring federal contractors, including some of America’s largest businesses, to hire diverse workforces.
www.reuters.com/world/us/why...
Why LBJ signed executive order 11246 that Trump rescinded
When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act shortly.
www.reuters.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM