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There’s strong evidence now that if you change the walkability of a community, people will get more physical activity,
Dr. Brownson said
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 AssociationIf 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 TexasThe 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 commissionerI would take back Covid-19 in a heartbeat over what’s happening right now,
Dr. Davis 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.The 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 saidBut Trump’s budget this year carries extra significance,
Tony saidPlease take out your phones.”
This week, when the lights went down inside a theater in Los Angeles, the crowd was instructed to defy one of the most well-established rules of moviegoingIt’s a full-frontal assault on the institutions that protect our air, water, and public lands,
Weber said
Some of [the credits] have created a lot of jobs, and I think we need to be mindful of that,
she saidThe new budget and the statements made by Trump is counterintuitive to each other in actual practice. There are currently numerous examples of government benefits that are being under utilized because lack of knowledge and education that those benefits exist. Additionally, an argument can be made that this budget is discriminatory towards certain groups of US citizens by making it much harder to know about and access these benefits."
Smile Insurance Group CEO Chris Fong told Newsweek
The 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 CNBCEvery time I hear the word 'woke' used in a budget conversation, it hits like a dog whistle. A term that once stood for awareness and justice has been twisted into a pejorative. That kind of rebranding, turning something powerful into something weaponized is frustrating, but not surprising, but I digress."
Kevin Thompson, the CEO of 9i Capital Group and the host of the 9innings podcast, told Newsweek