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Geoff Mulvihill

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Trump’s new Medicaid rules will kick in, and GOP states are tougher. Someone may be too frail to work but can’t afford to see a doctor to prove it

While federal regulations say the state can take the recipient's word for it for the first year, at least six states are requiring documentation...

26.09.2026 7

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Food stamp enrollment plunges as Trump’s demand for more paperwork pushes poor people off the rolls

Arizona cut 400,000 people, more than 50%, from SNAP benefits, citing "unprecedented call volumes and administrative hurdles" from law changes.

22.08.2026 8

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Trump, Medicaid and LGBTQ+ rights: He calls them ‘barbaric surgeries,’ critics say he’s ‘terrorizing trans youth’

Medicaid will stop paying for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender minors.

13.08.2026 5

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Trump White House can reinstall its sanitized history of slavery at George Washington’s house, appeals court rules

New panels drop references to slave-trade routes and headlines like "The Dirty Business of Slavery," as Philadelphia fights to block their...

04.07.2026 9

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Some states are starting to crack down on companies that foist their workers onto Medicaid

New Jersey’s new fees turn public health coverage into a direct cost for employers—reviving an idea that hasn’t lasted long in the past.

02.07.2026 10

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Republican states rush to ban abortion pills as surveys suggest they’re spiking in pro-life states

Bills intended to keep out the pills have cleared one chamber in Arizona, Indiana and South Carolina this year.

24.03.2026 20

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Judge orders 5-year-old boy and his dad released from ICE detention, citing ‘incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas’

In his order Saturday, Biery said: “apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of...

01.02.2026 20

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Courts keep telling Trump that he can’t cut funding for ‘sanctuary cities,’ but now he’s going to try to cut states off, too

Trump unveiled the concept this time late in a speech Tuesday at the Detroit Economic Club, without offering specifics.

14.01.2026 40

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

No, Trump can’t use example of fraud in Minnesota to block childcare subisidies to 5 blue states, judge says

The five states say they receive a total of more than $10 billion a year from the programs.

10.01.2026 30

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Minnesota fraud scandal gives Trump cover to withhold funding for kids in 5 Democratic-led states

Five states — California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York — are targeted, and the HHS said they had been notified.

07.01.2026 30

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Getting $190 apiece to 42 million Americans has state officials in a post-shutdown SNAP scramble

About one in eight Americans, in lower-income households, is supposed to get monthly SNAP benefits by law.

14.11.2025 30

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Leader-Herald

A cashier scans groceries, including produce, which is covered by the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), at a grocery store in...

13.11.2025 20

The Leader Herald

Geoff Mulvihill

Trump administration to partially fund SNAP this month after judges order use of emergency reserves

The government says an emergency fund it will use has $4.65 billion — enough to cover about half the normal benefits.

04.11.2025 20

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

‘Gender ideology’ has no place in sex ed, Trump White House says

“Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas," said Andrew Gradison of the HHS.

30.08.2025 20

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill

Support for legal abortion is as high as it was when the Supreme Court opened the door to state bans

Now, 64% of adults support legal abortion in most or all cases. More than half the adults in states with the most stringent bans are in that group.

25.07.2025 30

Fortune

Geoff Mulvihill