Tag: program
Trump Aims to Cut Hospital Disaster Preparedness Program
Trump Aims to Cuts Program Used to Help Hospitals Evacuate During Disasters The Hospital Preparedness Program helps hospitals and emergency managers save lives in wildfires, tornadoes, pandemics and other mass-casualty events. The Trump administration has proposed cutting it By Ariel Wittenberg & E&E News The damaged interior of Monette Manor nursing home on Dec. 12,…
Trump’s VA strands thousands of veterans by ending a key mortgage program
By Chris Arnold , Quil Lawrence The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, as of Thursday, has ended a new mortgage-rescue program that so far has helped about 20,000 veterans avoid foreclosure and keep their homes. The move leaves millions of military veterans with far worse options than most other American homeowners if they run into…
Iran and the U.S. plan expert-level talks over Tehran’s nuclear program
By The Associated Press ROME — Iran and the United States will begin having experts meet to discuss details of a possible deal over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, the top Iranian diplomat said Saturday after a second round of negotiations in Rome. The comments by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who met with U.S.…
Why Trump Just Axed a Major Climate Program
Why Trump Axed a Bedrock U.S. Climate Program The dismemberment of the U.S. Global Change Research Program was outlined in Project 2025 as a way to elevate the “benefits” of climate change when fighting regulations in court By Scott Waldman & E&E News U.S. President Donald Trump, listens to a question as he visits Chez…
An Explosive Clock Is Ticking on Iran and Its Nuclear Program
Trump Administration News Analysis Expected talks between Iran and the United States would be a late, and perhaps last, opportunity to control Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and avoid war. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger has covered talks on Iran’s nuclear program for many years and reported from Berlin. Talks between the United States and Iran, which…
Trump admin. cuts funding for program that tracked Ukrainian children abducted by Russia
By Ailsa Chang , Tinbete Ermyas , Marc Rivers Funding for a U.S.-based program that tracks thousands of Ukrainian children allegedly abducted and taken to Russia has been cut and U.S. lawmakers are worried that a database with crucial information has been permanently deleted, according to a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed…
US evangelical groups urge Trump to spare HIV/Aids program from aid cuts
Christian evangelical organizations instrumental in creating the US program that has saved millions of lives from HIV/Aids are pressing the Trump administration to rescue the scheme from crushing cuts to foreign assistance. The state department has said that the two-decade-old President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar), which is estimated to have prevented 25m early…
Trump signs executive action targeting public service loan program
Jonaki Mehta President Donald Trump has signed an executive action that directs the U.S. Education Department to exclude certain federal student loan borrowers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The action says “individuals employed by organizations whose activities have a substantial illegal purpose” will no longer be eligible for the program, known as PSLF.…
Trump administration ends funding for UN program fighting HIV/Aids
Peter Marocco sends letter to UNAids terminating US involvement in serious blow to live-saving health service The Trump administration has terminated its funding of the joint United Nations program on HIV/Aids, known as UNAids, delivering another devastating blow to the global fight against the disease. The notice that US funding of UNAids is being cut…
The Fate of NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program May Be Decided in 2026
NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program Faces Stark Choices NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them until 2026 By Lee Billings edited by Dean Visser NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover appears in this selfie it snapped in January 2023 alongside several sample tubes…
Indonesia launches free meals program to fight stunting
By The Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s new government started an ambitious $28 million project Monday to feed nearly 90 million children and pregnant women to fight malnutrition and stunting although critics question whether the nationwide program is affordable. The Free Nutritious Meal program delivers on a campaign promise by President Prabowo Subianto, who…