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• SSA Offers Buyouts to Staff Ahead of Planned Workforce Reductions and Field Office Closures

  February 28, 2025: The Social Security Administration is offering financial incentives of $15,000 to $25,000 to staff who voluntarily resign from the agency before mandated staffing reductions and office closures take place. Acting Social Security C Read More >

• KFF Health News: Republicans Once Wanted Government out of Health Care. Trump Voters See It Differently.

  February 28, 2025: Like many Americans who voted for Donald Trump, Jason Rouse hopes the president’s return will mean lower prices for gas, groceries, and other essentials. But Rouse is looking to the federal government for relief from one part Read More >

• KFF Health News: Trump Froze Out Project 2025 in His Campaign. Now Its Blueprint Is His Health Care Playbook.

  February 26, 2025: Few voters likely expected President Donald Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency. But funding cuts to the National Institutes of Read More >

• KFF Health News: Montana’s Medicaid Expansion Conundrum

  February 25, 2025: HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for Medicaid, Montana’s Republican-led legislature and GOP governor appear ready to keep the state’s Medicaid expansion pro Read More >

• House Republican Budget Resolution Vote Will Lead to Drastic Cuts in Health Care, Put Millions of Vulnerable Seniors at Risk

  February 25, 2025: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding House Passage of the FY 2025 House Budget Resolution: “Americans want their leaders to do something abo Read More >

• SUIT FILED: In New Challenge, Retirees, Unions Seek to Block DOGE’s Unprecedented, Unlawful Social Security Data, Power Grab

  February 22, 2025: AFSCME, Alliance for Retired Americans, AFT Challenge DOGE’s Access, Executed by Unconfirmed, Acting Official, to Confidential, Private Data of Hundreds of Millions of Americans Suit filed on heels of SSA Acting Head’s Depart Read More >

• Take Action to Stop House Budget Resolution That Fast Tracks Massive Medicaid and Tax Cuts

  February 21, 2025: Read More >

• KFF Health News: GOP Takes Aim at Medicaid, Putting Enrollees and Providers at Risk

  February 21, 2025: Medicaid is under threat — again. Republicans, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing proposals that could sharply cut funding to the government health insurance program for poor and disabled Americans, as a way to financ Read More >

• KFF Health News: Republicans Are Eyeing Cuts to Medicaid. What’s Medicaid, Again?

  February 19, 2025: In January, during a congressional hearing on his way to becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got basic details wrong about Medicaid — a program he now oversees. He said t Read More >

• Does President Trump Think Older Americans Are Dumb?

  February 19, 2025: Alliance for Retired Americans leader Richard Fiesta released the following statement regarding President Trump’s endorsement of the House Budget Resolution which will slash billions from Medicaid: “Last night on a Fox News Read More >