Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Senate health committee’s chairman, scheduled a hearing next week for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify about the overhaul of his department. Cassidy, a Republican doctor from Louisiana, only backed Kennedy for the job after obtaining “serious commitments,” from the administration, including that the health secretary would regularly appear before Senate lawmakers. Employees across Kennedy's department received notices of dismissal Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people. The cuts include researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders, leaving the government without many of the key experts who have long guided U.S. decisions on medical research, drug approvals and other issues.
Hundreds of employees wait in line wrapped around the outside of the Health and Human Services headquarters building, Tuesday morning, April 1, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Amanda Seitz)
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President Donald Trump says “Liberation Day” is coming. On Wednesday, he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods. The details of Trump’s next round of import taxes are still sketchy. Most economic analyses say average U.S. families would have to absorb the cost of his tariffs in the form of higher prices and lower incomes. Trump is inviting CEOs to the White House to say they're investing billion in new projects to avoid the import taxes. It's also possible the tariffs are short-lived if Trump feels he can cut a deal after imposing them.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an event announcing proposed changes to SNAP and food dye legislation, Friday, March 28, 2025, in Martinsburg, W. Va. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Gun safety groups are celebrating the Supreme Court decision upholding a Biden administration firearm regulation on nearly impossible-to-trace ghost guns. The rule requires continued serial numbers, background checks and age verification to buy kits to build the ghost guns, privately made firearms without the serial numbers that allow police to trace weapons. The high court handed down its 7-2 opinion Wednesday. A Michigan woman whose son was accidently shot by a friend says she's “deeply relieved” by the decision. Since the rule was finalized in 2022, ghost gun numbers have flattened out or declined in major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Gun groups challenging the rule had argued the federal government overstepped its authority.
FILE - A ghost gun that police seized from an organized shoplifting crime ring is on display during a news conference at the Queens District Attorney's office in New York City, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
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