Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP
The US department of health and human services (HHS) has terminated several multi-million-dollar grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics following the association’s criticisms of health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s policies.
The funding cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and early identification of autism, were first reported by the Washington Post and made without prior notice to the AAP.
In a statement to the Guardian, AAP CEO, Mark Del Monte, said: “AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the US Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated.
“This vital work spanned multiple child health priorities, including reducing sudden infant death, rural access to health care, mental health, adolescent health, supporting children with birth defects, early identification of autism, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among other topics.”
I think you make a lot of good points. Justice does move slowly and I am pretty impatient at this point.
I think classism is one of the biggest issue we face and not holding the President accountable creates a blatant two tier justice system where politicians and are rarely held accountable and the President is never held accountable.
We also see this with wealthy people and our society even has clever names like “fuck you” money where you no longer have to listen to anything or follow the rules if you have enough money.
The thing is, we should be holding people in power to a higher level of accountability not lower or even worse not at all. Until our culture changes in this regard we will see people taking advantage of their privilege with impunity.
Trump and company are actually playing by the rules of their class and just taking this privilege to its logical conclusion. If you can’t be stopped, why stop.