US healthcare cuts spark nationwide protests

The small government policies of Donald Trump keep provoking continual and distinct nationwide protests two and a half months into his second term.

Across the country, healthcare patients, unions, medical workers, researchers and academics demanded a reversal of Trump's cuts in healthcare, research and education, which they say endangers the future of public health.

• Trump’s health cuts spark nationwide protests
  

  Trump’s health cuts spark nationwide protests

  A protest has been held in Washington DC against the recent elimination of thousands of federal health jobs.

Among developed nations, the United States has the highest obesity rates, the worst performing but most expensive healthcare system, and, astounding inequalities in how people are cared for.

Many say that means governmental abandon will only make things worse.

We need accurate information, we need factual information, we need evidence-based knowledge. We need all of this for decision-making. We need this for our kids to be properly educated.

But this suppression of knowledge, it's an attack on democracy and it's an attack on diversity and plurality.

So we really don't need any cuts right now to things that help us be better educated and informed.

Protestor 01

• Trump blitzkrieg to drastically downsize US government
  

  Trump blitzkrieg to drastically downsize US government

  The Trump administration

Prior to the COVID 19 pandemic, the nation's various health agencies enjoyed decades of bipartisan support, but the constant flip flopping on guidelines, accusations of inflated casualty counts, and, intolerance for dissenting viewpoints tarnish the image of the nation's health establishment for many Republicans.

Dr Anthony Fauci's successor, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, is among the thousands of recently fired federal health workers.

I want to be ready for the next pandemic. I want to be ready to deal with diseases as they're understood and can be addressed make people's lives better.

I want the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control to keep doing what they've been doing so well they didn't need to be torn apart.

Protestor 02

• Trump blitzkrieg to drastically downsize US government
  

  Trump blitzkrieg to drastically downsize US government

  The Trump administration

Many speakers and protesters noted how disregard for human suffering in Gaza has encouraged a disregard for human suffering among the nations medically vulnerable.

Not just the cuts to health funding, but I think we need to push back against the rising wave of fascism in this country.

I'm a little discouraged that more people aren't making the connection between, for example, what our domestic policy is and what our foreign policy is, but clearly, we're seeing that we were very willing to throw people under the bus the past few years, abroad, and we're seeing it come back home.

Protestor 03

Further imperiling the future of American healthcare is the rise in anti-immigrant sentiment and deportations since 25% of the nation's doctors and medical scientists are foreign born.

• Disastrous Trump economic policies
  

  Disastrous Trump economic policies

  The economic policies of Trump are bleeding the US economy, impacting the average US consumer as well as adversely effecting global economic stability.

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