Medicaid: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Our new timeline recaps the 35 events that have remade a massively complex federal health insurance program:

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Medicaid: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

What has 14 months of Trump meant for Medicaid?

Less funding and staff. Way more red tape for millions of low-income recipients. 10 million more people losing health insurance by 2034.

Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Our Medical Research Funding team did a quick update as well, focusing on continued meddling with research grants and another hit to workers’ unions.

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Lawmakers Form New Caucus to Advocate for Federal Workers A bipartisan group of more than two dozen lawmakers from the House and Senate have formed a Federal Workforce Caucus to support and strengthen the federal civilian workforce while protecting the integ...

And a group of more than two dozen lawmakers formed a new caucus to advocate for federal workers. www.afge.org/article/lawm...

We saw some countermoves, too: The bipartisan oversight committee issued an interim report on DOGE’s “costly and destructive actions,” including how it purged federal workers and *weakened* safeguards against waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption.
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Equality at Work: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Our Federal Workforce team also posted an update, including fallout from last year’s drastic job cuts and more federal employees losing their collective bargaining rights.
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Immigration — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

The Immigration team also posted a big update, including a couple of good legal rulings, three deaths in detention, and a lot of gruesome reporting on detention conditions and attempts to evade oversight.

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Screenshot showing the “Filter timeline” interface on the Unbreaking Immigration timeline, with clickable tags including asylum and refugee protections, birthright citizenship, deaths, defying court orders, detention conditions, due process/habeas, ideological screening, lawsuits, mass detention, and many others that won’t fit in the alt text field here. The “due process/habeas” tag is selected.

We’ve also got timeline filtering by topic happening on our biggest timeline, Immigration. We’re closing in on 500 events in there, so filtering is an important tool for seeing what’s actually going on. Here’s the filter for “due process”:

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Medicaid: Timeline — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

And here’s that brand-new Medicaid timeline. Hit “Flip table” to reverse the chronology.
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Briefing: New Medicaid timeline + more — Unbreaking This week, we introduce our new Medicaid timeline, showcase our new topic filters, and post updates from our Immigration, Federal Workforce, and Medical Research Funding teams.

This week, we’re introducing a timeline to accompany our longstanding narrative Medicaid explainer, which means that all our active pages have timelines up. Learn all about this and much more in our weekly briefing:

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Canceled contracts, a failed polygraph and personal disputes: Inside the turbulent tenure of Noem’s former cyber czar A dozen current and former officials said that former acting CISA Director Madhu Gottumukkala’s leadership was troublesome for the agency long before his reassignment late Thursday.

And chaos continued at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as an interim chief with no federal government experience was reassigned following reports of staff alienation and sudden contract changes.
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Court says the IRS can continue to share immigrants' taxpayer data with ICE A federal appeals court is allowing the IRS to keep sharing some taxpayer data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Tuesday, the D.C.

A federal court in Washington, DC, allowed the IRS to share data with ICE: apnews.com/article/trea...

The Department of Defense’s Conflict With Anthropic and Deal With OpenAI Are a Call for Congress To Act Both Anthropic and OpenAI are calling on elected leaders to provide new AI protections.

The Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social has an overview of AI companies’ negotiations around use of AI in domestic surveillance and is advocating for Congress to pass legislation protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Anthropic officially told by DOD that it's a supply chain risk even as Claude used in Iran The formal declaration will require defense vendors and contractors to certify that they don’t use Anthropic’s models in their work with the Pentagon.

The DOD designated Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” and barred them from federal contracts after Anthropic refused to reverse prohibitions on use of its products in domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.
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Democratic legislators sent investigative letters to 10 tech companies and mobile carriers asking what account data they have shared in response to DHS’s “administrative subpoenas” and also demanded an investigation into DHS’s use of online advertising data.
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Data Security — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

We added 12 entries to our Data Security timeline; several relate to the administration’s demands for unreserved cooperation from tech companies.
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Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through…

The Federal Judicial Center excised the chapter on climate science from its reference manual in response to a request from more than 20 state attorneys general who claim that including climate science information “advances an ideological agenda.”
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In February, the State Department announced that it would delete all posts made before January 20, 2025, on its X accounts. The old posts will be archived, but a Freedom of Information request will be required to view them.
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The slavery exhibits at the President’s House are starting to be restored by the National Park Service The restoration is the latest development in the city and community stakeholders’ fight to preserve the President’s House after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered the removal of exhibits.

In Archives & History news, a successful lawsuit by the City of Philadelphia has restored some panels depicting the history of slavery to the President’s House Site in Independence National Historical Park.
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How to help — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

We’re always on the lookout for researchers, writers, and editors to pitch in and help us make and maintain these pages. Here’s how to join us: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

Legal cases against the Trump administration’s public health actions continued, with 15 states now suing HHS over the CDC’s changes in vaccine recommendations.
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The US was widely expected to lose its measles elimination status at the Pan American Health Organization meeting in April. But at the request of HHS, the decision has now been postponed until after the 2026 midterm elections. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

Upcoming meeting of federal vaccine panel postponed after HHS missed deadlines Federal officials have missed the legal deadline to notify the public of an upcoming ACIP meeting, raising questions about whether the meeting will be postponed.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which makes recommendations on vaccine use and schedule, continued to show signs of disrupted activity and weakened influence.
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The CDC Has a Leadership Crisis A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had only acting directors—and the White House won’t say when that will change.

Leadership instability persists at the CDC. The agency lost its principal deputy director after three months and saw the appointment of its fourth acting head in a year—NIH Director and close RFK Jr. ally Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
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Infectious Disease Control & Prevention — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

The Infectious Disease Control & Prevention page added 12 new items to our timeline. Amid worrying increases in measles, TB, and whooping cough outbreaks, we are seeing further erosion and politicization of public health organizations and networks.
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Since inmates have fewer advocates and lower oversight requirements, regressive policies are often tested on them first. We should consider the DOJ’s “Management Policy for Inmates with Gender Dysphoria” a roadmap for future violence.