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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has blocked the fed’s plans to open a facility in Washington, DC, to house 200 Unaccompanied Alien Minors.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is opposed to a temporary shelter in D.C. to deal with the flood of unaccompanied children coming across the border.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for health care that is high-quality, affordable, and “gender-affirming” in a tweet posted Tuesday afternoon. However, she has not always held that position.

HOUSTON, Texas — Police arrested six protesters at a migrant children’s detention center Tuesday. This is the second protest at the center in less than a month.

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting the Trump administration is delaying its enforcement of the Protect Life Rule that bars facilities that receive federal family planning funds from referring women for abortions.

Planned Parenthood said it will forgo federal funds rather than comply with the Trump administration’s rule that bars abortion referrals.

The Trump Administration announced is immediately enacting its Protect Life Rule that bars facilities that receive federal family planning funds from performing or referring women for abortions.

A federal appeals court Thursday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with its rule that marks a clear boundary between abortion and family planning, even as the law continues to be challenged in the courts.

The Trump administration has agreed to delay its new rule protecting healthcare workers from being bullied into participating in procedures that violate their faith beliefs as a result of the barrage of lawsuits against it.

“We’re not in the hospital business. We’re in the border security business at the border,” Trump said. “And all of a sudden, we’re forced to be in the hospital business.”

A federal appeals court held the Trump administration’s rule to end family planning funding of Planned Parenthood may take effect.

University of California System President Janet Napolitano released a statement condemning the Trump administration over new restrictions on fetal tissue research. UCSF, which lost a $2 million federal contract for fetal tissue research, says the decision is not based on “sound science.”

Planned Parenthood and its allies filed lawsuits in federal court Tuesday against the Trump administration over its new rule that protects healthcare workers who choose not to participate in abortions because of faith beliefs or moral convictions.

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will no longer provide taxpayer funding for research in its programs that uses human fetal tissue derived from the body parts of aborted babies.

HHS announced Friday a proposed rule that would change the Obama administration’s definition of sex discrimination under Obamacare by eliminating “gender identity” and “termination of pregnancy.”

A WalletHub report released on Monday shows the District of Columbia ranked number one in the nation for drug problems.

The federally funded International Rescue Committee is soliciting money to pay for gifts to give to migrant moms on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The White House will put measures in place as soon as this summer to require further transparency from drug advertisers.

The Trump administration announced on the National Day of Prayer Thursday its final rule that protects the conscience rights of healthcare workers and other entities.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call on Monday that the recent measles outbreak in the United States was “completely avoidable.”

The current measles outbreak in the United States is so widespread the country could lose its “measles free” status in the coming months.

As the number of measles cases reported reaches the highest number since the highly contagious disease was eliminated in the United States in 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health and Human Services (HHS) are speaking out about the need for people to use the safe and effective vaccine to end the outbreak.

Statistics from the federal government show the fate of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant ‘children’ who have come across the border with Mexico illegally or to seek asylum.

President Donald Trump may appoint an “immigration czar” to coordinate the government’s fractured authority over border security, asylum law, the labor supply, and visas, according to a report by the Associated Press. 

The Trump administration announced Friday it will award a $5.1 million grant to the Obria Group – a nonprofit network of health centers that provides life-affirming comprehensive healthcare.

“While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security,” Trump wrote on Twitter. 

The Washington Post on Wednesday published a searing indictment of the Obama administration for disregarding a plea from health experts to declare a public health emergency for overdoses from fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid that was already racking up a body count in 2016 and would go on to kill thousands of people over the next three years.

President Donald Trump on Saturday referred to prominent conservative author Ann Coulter as a “Wacky Nut Job” following months of criticism she has directed at him regarding the lack of progress building a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Over 100 Democrats introduced their “Medicare for All” proposal on Feb. 27. It takes away private health insurance — and that’s just the beginning.

A report from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement indicates that thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) were sexually abused during the past four years in federal custody. Of those reported to the Department of Justice, 65 percent of the abuses were at the hands of other minors in custody.

The president of Planned Parenthood said on Sunday that the Trump administration’s new rule to prevent family planning grants from going to groups that provide, promote, or refer abortions would result in women not having access to the procedure, even if it saved their lives.

Dr. Alveda King recalled Margaret Sanger’s — founder of Planned Parenthood — racist and eugenicist politics in a Friday interview.

The Trump administration issued a final rule Friday that underscores that federal taxpayer funds provided for family planning services may not be used to support abortion in any way.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said on Friday that the United States government should pay reparations to families separated at the border.

President Donald Trump donated his third-quarter salary of 2018 to a federal agency that researches alcoholism.

The Donald Trump administration announced on Wednesday that they will grant South Carolina’s request to protect state faith-based foster care providers.