Sabrina Siddiqui

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One of the biggest changes came early on when President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that really slashed funding for Medicaid by over $1 trillion.

Fewer people will be covered by Medicaid over the next decade because of that law.

In the public health domain, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has brought about significant changes to vaccine policy and also the makeup of who is making decisions around what policy should look like.

He is a longtime vaccine skeptic.

So what we knew is that he was going to fundamentally try and reshape U.S.

vaccine policy.

Under Kennedy's watch, COVID vaccines are not universally recommended anymore.

anymore.

They also dropped the recommendation that newborns receive hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

And then, of course, they've tried to cast doubt on the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

So changing the CDC webpage to say that vaccines might cause autism.

firing the director of the CDC because she did not want to sign off on some of his proposed changes to vaccines, and then firing all of the members of a key vaccine advisory panel and replacing that panel with Kennedy's own handpicked advisors, many of whom are vaccine skeptics.

And now they're going to be examining the childhood vaccine schedule more broadly.

When the CDC makes a change to vaccine recommendations, it does not necessarily mean that those vaccines are no longer available, but it does change what some of the insurance coverage might look like, especially when it comes to federal programs.

You had President Trump saying quite definitively that pregnant women shouldn't take Tylenol.

And while there are some studies that have shown a potential link between acetaminophen and autism, other studies have found no link.

Even where there are some studies that have shown a potential link, those studies have not said that the Tylenol has caused autism.

So the big concern that emanated from that moment and that could give us a sense of what's to come is that this administration is not relying on what the abundance of evidence shows.

The bigger concern that we've been hearing from physicians and public health experts is they're just planting these seeds of doubt.