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Smoking rates have come down, but if the federal government takes its foot off the gas, the tobacco companies are ready to pop back up again,
said Erika Sward, assistant vice president for advocacy at the American Lung Association
There’s strong evidence now that if you change the walkability of a community, people will get more physical activity,
Dr. Brownson saidOnce they are up and started, they are community-driven and don’t depend on the government,
said Allison Bay, who recently lost her job managing such projects at the C.D.C.If you don’t collect the information or keep these surveillance systems going, you don’t know what’s happening, you don’t know what the trends are,
said Dr. Philip Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services in TexasI would take back Covid-19 in a heartbeat over what’s happening right now,
Dr. Davis saidThe actions of the federal government have left us out on a flimsy limb with no safety net below us,
said Dr. Brooke Cunningham, the state’s health commissionerThe actual subject-matter experts, who administer the programs, might not be there at C.D.C. anymore,
said Dr. Scott Harris, state health officer at the Alabama Department of Public HealthHow do you reconcile that with trying to make America healthy again?”
Of the proposed cuts, she saidI am at a loss right now to tell you where that would come from,
he addedIt will take a lot more money to put the genie back in the bottle,
she saidEliminating the Office on Smoking and Health is just craziness if you’re still wanting to address chronic diseases,
he saidBut just having the federal expertise to call on to help lead us toward a lead-free future, I mean, yeah, that has a big impact on us,
he saidThis is a moment for solidarity and those who champion bodily autonomy to really stand together and make the case for sexual and reproductive health and rights to make sure it’s not silenced and erased,
said Mackay of MSI
I think it is safe to say that the anti-rights movement is much deeper and much more embedded in local communities than they were before at the national level and at the sub-national level,
said Anu Kumar, president and CEO of Ipas, which has aid workers in over 30 states across Africa, Asia and South AmericaOur team has been working with local authorities to share correct information through radio, phone and shows, but we are seeing that sort of panic in many places,
said Anna Mackay, senior director of global programs and philanthropy at MSI Reproductive Choices, an organization working in 36 countries across six continentsThese intersecting realities are deepening inequalities and eroding what little infrastructure we have to protect women and girls and gender minorities,
Fabiola Mizero, the regional director of Ipas Francophone Africa, told reporters on the same callThe administration’s decision to terminate all family planning grants represents for us an unprecedented abandonment of American leadership on the world stage,
Jonathan Wittenberg, co-president and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute, told reporters during a press call on the Trump administration’s impacts on global sexual and reproductive healthThey’re not just based in the U.S. and parachuting in and out of countries, as they did previously. They are much more embedded in countries now,
Kumar addedThe new budget proposals do scale back from some of the bigger, broader cuts to Medicaid and Medicare that were originally proposed. Medicaid and Medicare are two of the most popular government programs, and there was a general belief that major cuts to them would trigger a backlash at the ballot box in future years."
Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin, told Newsweek
The president has said, for example, that he doesn't want to touch Medicare and Medicaid...He's saying don't cut benefits to beneficiaries."
Senator Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, told CNBC