The Trump administration is proposing significant cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), particularly impacting non-Medicare and non-Medicaid sectors. The newly formed U.S. DOGE service has implemented a program called "Defend the Spend," which imposes strict reviews of federal health-care grants, leading to delays and funding backlogs. This effort aims to align grant expenditures with Trump’s policies but results in inefficiency and funding paralysis for numerous health-related organizations that serve low-income communities, affecting critical salaries and services.
"The U.S. DOGE service is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal health-care grants, requiring government officials to manually review and approve previously routine payments..."
"Defend the Spend, is essentially a slow-motion riot in which efficiency is promoted by the agency not doing its work..."
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