
Trump Reverses Some Biden Drug Pricing Initiatives, Potentially Impacting Medicare Costs
Experts suggest that most Americans will not experience immediate changes in their out-of-pocket health care expenses.
President Donald Trump’s second-term health care agenda is taking shape with a clear focus on undoing several Biden-era policies.1 On Monday, Trump signed an executive order reversing initiatives aimed at reducing prescription drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid recipients, expanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and increasing protections for Medicaid enrollees.
As I am on a specialty medicine through medicare, this is a concern for me.
Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has directed federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites and health advisories, according to sources within the agencies.
The initial orders were delivered Tuesday to staff at agencies inside the US Department of Health and Human Services, including to officials at the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the story.
Now this is scary. Think back to the early days of Covid, and how Trump wanted to minimize it's impact. A blog, Your Local Epidemiologist wrote this:"However, the scope of a pause ordered this week is unusual. For example, CDC’s scientific publication, MMWR, wasn’t published yesterday. It was the first time in 70 years this has happened, and it included three discoveries on the H5N1 (bird flu) outbreak—an active biosecurity threat to Americans. Also, every Friday, CDC updates its respiratory virus data on external dashboards. Today, only a small subset of data is being released."
The MMWR - the Mortallity and Morbidity Weekly Report - is not a publication that most people are aware of, but those in the medical field know. Are we not suppose to know when there are breakouts of certain diseases?
Trump's EO reversing birthright citizenship has been stopped by a federal judge and should be doomed. We will have to see if the SCOTUS is as corrupt as some fear. Birthright citizenship is in the constitution and it takes more that a a few words from a pen held by a president to change it.
Some of his executive orders are right from Project 2025.

Trump’s Executive Orders: Reversing Biden’s Policies and Attacking the ‘Deep State’
The president moved swiftly in his first hours in office, signing a slew of executive orders in front of a roaring crowd and then in the Oval Office.
- Restore a category of federal workers known as Schedule F, which would lack the same job protections enjoyed by career civil servants.
This comes from Project 2025. Federal workers are suing.

Federal Workers Sue Trump Administration Over Schedule F Executive Order
Read more here.

Amid a flurry of executive orders President Donald Trump signed in the first few hours of retaking the White House is one that strips employment protections for tens of thousands of federal workers.
The EO — known as “Schedule F” when he signed it at the tail end of his first presidency — reclassifies the employment status of tens of thousands of civil service employees, essentially putting them in a less-protected employment class that makes it easier to dismiss them for political disloyalty. The reimplementation of Schedule F was one part of a larger EO Trump signed that impacts the federal workforce. It also includes a hiring freeze, a 5-days-a-week return to office mandate and changes in hiring practices.
I haven't touched on many things Trump did that are damaging to the Aemrican worker this week. It is going to be a sad and long 4 years.