Rachel Maddow

The Trump administration has now had to reverse itself and restore the funding Trump had cut for the largest and most important decades-long study of women's health. credited with saving countless women's lives, changing women's health globally, and saving billions of dollars in the American health system. It is a study that started in the 90s. It has enrolled over 160,000 American women.

It is one of the most successful long-term medical studies in the history of science. And Trump just killed it, cut it off midstream with no warning. And now they have had to reverse that.

It is one of the most successful long-term medical studies in the history of science. And Trump just killed it, cut it off midstream with no warning. And now they have had to reverse that.

Now, the Trump administration has had to reverse itself on its not at all terrifying plan to create a national government registry of autistic people under the authority of Trump HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who, of course, talks about autistic people as if they are not even human. And now he's going to create a universal registry of everyone with an autism diagnosis in the United States?

Now, the Trump administration has had to reverse itself on its not at all terrifying plan to create a national government registry of autistic people under the authority of Trump HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who, of course, talks about autistic people as if they are not even human. And now he's going to create a universal registry of everyone with an autism diagnosis in the United States?

Are you kidding me? That was his plan. Now he's had to reverse himself on that as well. Today, the Trump administration has had to reverse itself on cutting food safety scientists at the FDA. Trump's new hand-picked FDA commissioner actually went on CNN this week and denied that those scientists had been fired. He said, quote, I can tell you there were no cuts to scientists or inspectors.

Are you kidding me? That was his plan. Now he's had to reverse himself on that as well. Today, the Trump administration has had to reverse itself on cutting food safety scientists at the FDA. Trump's new hand-picked FDA commissioner actually went on CNN this week and denied that those scientists had been fired. He said, quote, I can tell you there were no cuts to scientists or inspectors.

There absolutely were. Firings of scientists and inspectors cut from food and drug safety labs all across the country, including, I should mention, from the veterinary division of FDA, where what they were working on was the bird flu. He didn't even know they haven't been cut.

There absolutely were. Firings of scientists and inspectors cut from food and drug safety labs all across the country, including, I should mention, from the veterinary division of FDA, where what they were working on was the bird flu. He didn't even know they haven't been cut.

Now they've quietly started reinstating all those scientists and inspectors that they actually did cut, but they didn't want to admit it, let alone defend it. And so now they've had to reverse it. All of those reversals within the last day. I mean, listen. It's Friday. I'm sorry. I run out of things to give by the time we get to Friday.

Now they've quietly started reinstating all those scientists and inspectors that they actually did cut, but they didn't want to admit it, let alone defend it. And so now they've had to reverse it. All of those reversals within the last day. I mean, listen. It's Friday. I'm sorry. I run out of things to give by the time we get to Friday.

Sometimes I'm a little more blunt on Fridays than I am other days. I'm sorry. It's exhaustion. But listen, it's not like we didn't know it was going to be terrible. Right. This week, after all, it's the five year anniversary of Trump in his first term telling the country that maybe we should all inject bleach or disinfectants into our bodies. Because, sure, that would probably take care of covid.

Sometimes I'm a little more blunt on Fridays than I am other days. I'm sorry. It's exhaustion. But listen, it's not like we didn't know it was going to be terrible. Right. This week, after all, it's the five year anniversary of Trump in his first term telling the country that maybe we should all inject bleach or disinfectants into our bodies. Because, sure, that would probably take care of covid.

Right. Do you remember Lysol had to put out a disclaimer saying, please do not actually inject disinfectant into your body? My God, we realize the president just said to do that, but please do not. That was five years ago this week. We've had time to settle in to what it's like to have Donald Trump in a position of power, right? So it's not like we didn't know it was going to be terrible.

Right. Do you remember Lysol had to put out a disclaimer saying, please do not actually inject disinfectant into your body? My God, we realize the president just said to do that, but please do not. That was five years ago this week. We've had time to settle in to what it's like to have Donald Trump in a position of power, right? So it's not like we didn't know it was going to be terrible.

And it is terrible. He really did have a judge arrested today. And we will have more on that in a moment. But that wasn't all. I mean, today we learned that Trump is killing off the federal funding for Narcan. Narcan, the anti-overdose miracle that has literally saved hundreds of millions of American lives in the last few years.

And it is terrible. He really did have a judge arrested today. And we will have more on that in a moment. But that wasn't all. I mean, today we learned that Trump is killing off the federal funding for Narcan. Narcan, the anti-overdose miracle that has literally saved hundreds of millions of American lives in the last few years.

There are hundreds of thousands of Americans who are alive today who would not be alive without Narcan. It is a miracle that saves people from overdose. And Trump, in his first term, bragged and bragged and bragged about how much his administration supported Narcan and how much they'd done to make sure everywhere in the country could get Narcan. Now he's killing it off.

There are hundreds of thousands of Americans who are alive today who would not be alive without Narcan. It is a miracle that saves people from overdose. And Trump, in his first term, bragged and bragged and bragged about how much his administration supported Narcan and how much they'd done to make sure everywhere in the country could get Narcan. Now he's killing it off.

And killing off programs to combat opioid addiction at the same time. Trump really is completely zeroing out, completely eliminating Head Start everywhere in the country because, God forbid, American kids can go to preschool because that's a terrible thing. Complete termination of that 60-year-old program.