RIP U.S. innovation.
Between gutting the H-1B program, purging US scientists from civil service, slashing research grants, and disappearing international students off the streets, our government has made a conscious decision to kill America's role as a global leader in science and innovation.
This will be absolutely devastating in the medical field.
~30% residents are international medical graduates & ~10k of 43k residency spots are filled by docs with H1-B visas.
Previously the h-1B fee was <$5,000.
No hospital will pay a $100k fee for a $55k resident salary.
The University of Nebraska enforces its trademark all the time. Why not now? Using “Cornhusker” to brand an ICE detention camp is a disgrace. @UNLincoln should defend its name and denounce this shameful use.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today.
Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American.
There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
America’s secret economic weapon has never been oil, tech, or cheap capital.
It’s the rule-of-law premium: the trust that here, contracts mean something, courts are impartial, and power has guardrails.
This administration is cashing it out.
The panic about tariffs has given way to cautious optimism. But Trumponomics 2.0 will erode the foundations of America’s prosperity https://t.co/d7Z1uq4Eca
Our new analysis just up at Health Affairs Forefront: we project administrative costs stemming from national Medicaid Work Requirements as in the "Big Beautiful Bill."
We estimate:
> $5 billion in new administrative costs, equal to
> $950 per beneficiary dis-enrolled, or
This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: https://t.co/70sBY8T441
The reconciliation bill barreling forward in Congress towards Trump’s desk will inflict thousands of medically-preventable deaths annually to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. This is a horrifying assault on the health, medical care, and lives of our lower-income patients.