Social media content about the OMB grantmaking rule

Defend Public Health has filed a new Amicus brief in support of the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups in litigation in their lawsuit against HHS Secretary Kennedy's effective destruction of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

Defend Public Health opposes in no uncertain terms a recently-proposed OMB rule that would require political review of all federal funding. This unprecedented step will undermine expert peer review of research grants and take the power of the purse away from Congress.

DPH's public comment on Medicaid work requirements proposed by the Trump administration. Our comments note that the proposed rule "goes even further than the widespread and
dangerous cuts enacted in HR1, making even more people with medical conditions
vulnerable to falling through the cracks and losing the Medicaid coverage on which they
depend for their ongoing care."