#congressional-response

#congressional-response

We are extremely concerned by reports of the sudden termination of what appears to be the vast majority of the discretionary grants at Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Democrats wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Addressing mental health and substance use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery is a bipartisan priority. By Wednesday night, the White House had cancelled the cuts, one of the first major reversals of terminated or frozen federal funding in Democratic states even as grants for climate projects, childcare and healthcare remain outstanding.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had been posted at her hospital room since she was arrested with an expired visa Monday, and prohibited her family from visiting most of the week, even forbidding flowers with a notecard from her father. The agency did not respond to a request for comment Saturday morning, or earlier inquiries during the week.