By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
➡️ Eliminates the sales tax on over-the-counter medications;
➡️ Caps insulin copays at $35;
➡️ Creates a Prescription Drug Importation Program;
➡️ Establishes a Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board;
➡️ Licenses entities involved in the supply chain;
and more!
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Trump administration is calling people in the country "unlawful" who are: immigrants who signed all the paperwork, entered the country legally, and have remained here documented and lawfully.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s warning was met with immediate outrage, with one advocacy group calling it an “authoritarian warning.”
www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
- No legal justification provided for use of the military in domestic law enforcement.
Without that, this is state-sponsored human trafficking.
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* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
They’re going to lose. The president simply does not have this power.
This executive order is about as effective as if I wrote it in crayon on a napkin. It just doesn’t mean anything legally.