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POLITICO PULSE CHECK: Meet the New Watchdogs Putting Pressure on HHS
“The work really began after the presidential election,” Toly Rinberg, co-founder of the Web Integrity Project, said on POLITICO’s “Pulse Check” podcast. “Specifically, we were thinking about what we could do” to hold Trump accountable.
THE HILL: Pro-life public servants are under assault — just for following the law
There is a new battleground for the Trump administration’s pro-life efforts: Defending public servants following the law.
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: Officials: State-funded anti-abortion group does not have to return fees
Officials will not seek to recover money that an audit concluded was improperly collected by a state-funded anti-abortion group.
SPLINTER: Pressure Mounts for Anti–Abortion Crusader Scott Lloyd to Resign from HHS
Several lawmakers have joined women’s health, immigration, and human rights advocates in calling for the resignation or firing of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Director Scott Lloyd.
THE HILL: Liberals seek ouster of HHS official blocking abortion
Democrats and liberal groups have ramped up their calls for the resignation of Scott Lloyd, the Trump administration health official who has tried to block multiple unaccompanied immigrant minors from receiving abortions.
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Dispute questions anti-abortion group's use of taxpayer dollars
In the early 1990s, then-Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey came up with a novel way to advance his crusade against abortion by offering state funding to groups to provide "alternatives to abortion."
VICE: Trump official who tried to block teens from abortions did nothing wrong, administration says
HHS Secretary Alex Azar defended a Trump administration official under fire for his role in a battle over undocumented teenagers’ access to abortion, telling congressional leaders that he believed the issue was prompted not the official’s opposition to abortion but by a decade-old policy.
STAT MORNING ROUNDS: Top health officials talk budgets on Capitol Hill
Health secretary Alex Azar is headed to Capitol Hill this morning to talk about HHS’s budget for next year.
REWIRE: Anti-Choice Group Could Be Forced to Show How It’s Spending Millions in Taxpayer Money
Officials from Equity Forward are aiming to shed light on how an anti-choice group has used tens of millions in state funding.
KAISER HEALTH NEWS: At New Health Office, ‘Civil Rights’ Means Doctors’ Right To Say No To Patients
The Trump administration is embarking on a sweeping effort to redefine civil rights in health care, with critics accusing the HHS of sidestepping the rights of patients to soothe a far smaller constituency: conservative nurses, hospitals and other caregivers.