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Nutrition Policy/Food Safety

HHS Secretary Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Makary have announced a multipart plan to phase out eight petroleum-based food dyes from the U.S. food supply, citing potential links to health issues like ADHD and cancer in children.

Medicaid Provider Taxes

A proposed rule entitled “Preserving Medicaid Funding for Vulnerable Populations – Closing a Health Care-Related Tax Loophole” has appeared on the regulatory agenda for HHS/CMS and is currently at the Office of Management & Budget (OMB) for review before being released. Currently, nothing definitive is known of the proposed rulemaking aside from...

Energy, Financials, Healthcare, Macro, Tech / Media / Telecom

In the coming weeks, House Republicans are planning to take the first steps on their “reconciliation” (tax/spending) legislation, with different committees voting on the individual components of the bill for which they are each responsible. Speaker Johnson continues to say he wants to have the reconciliation bill enacted into law by the end of...

With Republicans having passed their budget resolution, the reconciliation process (whereby the party will seek to enact, on a partisan basis, large-scale tax/spending legislation) is moving to a more advanced/granular stage. As such, debate around possible Medicaid cuts is intensifying. This week, 12 moderate/swing-district House Republicans...

Recent/upcoming developments… President Trump has repeatedly indicated an intent to impose tariffs of 25% on pharmaceutical inputs, including in his address to Congress where he laid out his policy agenda. While Trump has been alone in expressing concern about tariffs in sectors such as autos, China hawks have for the last year or so called...

President Trump has signed a wide-ranging executive order (EO) aimed at addressing various issues relating to prescription drug pricing.