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Emile

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Thu Mar 27, 2025, 06:42 AM Mar 27

Federal government to pull back $125 million in COVID money from Illinois health departments

The federal government is pulling back $125 million in funding from the Illinois Department of Public Health and 97 local health departments for activities related to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, the state health department said Wednesday.

In all, the federal government is slashing $11.4 billion in federal funding across the country for state and local health departments and other health organizations for COVID-19-related activities. The move is the latest by the administration of President Donald Trump to cut costs across the federal government.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.

State leaders, however, slammed the decision on Wednesday.

Read more at: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/illinois-covid-19-money/

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Apparently shithole musk republicans want America to suffer and die................ Lovie777 Mar 27 #1

Lovie777

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1. Apparently shithole musk republicans want America to suffer and die................
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 07:12 AM
Mar 27

One thing about wealth, when you reach the end of the road, all that wealth remains here for someone else.

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