1. United States
2. Texas
3. Letter

Stop Trump and RFK Jr from killing us! These HHS cuts will cause real, permanent harm to millions of Texans. Tell Trump NO on his draconian budget proposals. Do not adopt them into the Congressional budget. From the Washington Post: "Trump and his allies in Congress have made clear they want to [scrub the govt] of programs and research efforts seen as wasteful or contrary to administration priorities... - The proposed cuts are aimed at some of the prevention-focused health-care efforts HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants to prioritize. - ...many specific programs would be eliminated under AHA, according to the document, including programs focused on preventing childhood lead poisoning, bolstering the health-care workforce, advancing rural health initiatives and maintaining a registry of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. - The proposal would cut the CDC’s budget by about 44 percent, from $9.2 billion to about $5.2 billion, and would eliminate all of the agency’s chronic disease programs and domestic HIV work. The chronic disease programs being eliminated include work on heart disease, obesity, diabetes and smoking cessation. - Rural programs formerly under the Health Resources and Services Administration appear to be hard-hit. The rural hospital flexibility grants, state offices of rural health, rural residency development program and at-risk rural hospitals program grants are listed as eliminations... - Money for the Head Start program, which provides early child care and education for low-income families and is funded by HHS’s Administration for Children and Families, would be eliminated."