Until now, the judge has published a Temporary prohibition order in favor of statesEffectively interrupting financing reductions until the court reaches an official decision. But the prohibition order only applies to 23 states and the Columbia District following HHS.
Nebraska is not among these 23 states.
A spokesperson for the Office of the Attorney General of Nebraska refused to comment why Nebraska did not join the trial. The trial is underway.
Representative Don Bacon, a republican who represents most of the Metropolitan region of Omaha, said in a written response that the gel of subsidies and the dismissal staff should be made with a scalpel, not a hammer, and that the money appropriate by the congress must be honored by the White House.
“Although I agree with the White House that we have to find the waste, I sometimes have the impression that those who work for the meadows. Trump rushes to take a big step and make the big titles, then turn around and correct it,” wrote Bacon. “If they measure twice and cut once, we would be in a much better position.”
Adrian Smith and Mike Flood representatives, both Republicans, did not respond to requests for comments.
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More than half of the $ 100 million that Nebraska lose, it is funding intended to detect, prevent and respond to infectious diseases.
Nebraska DHHS was already preparing at the end of this funding that Powell said in an email. The grant was to end in 2027.
“The announcement in March accelerated these plans,” Powell wrote. “DHHS is ready to treat all emergencies that may occur.”
These cancellation subsidies to combat infectious diseases filtered at the local level. This is the money on which Pofahl counted in the center of Nebraska. The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Service lost more than $ 600,000 in infectious financing of diseases. The Douglas County Health Service lost $ 900,000.
And in the South Center of Nebraska, $ 350,000 in funding disappeared, the money that would have been used to strengthen the capacity of this health service to follow and quickly respond to future emergencies or epidemics in Adams, Clay, Webster and Nuckolls, said Michele Bever, Executive Director of the South Heartland District.
“Without these federal funds that help extend our limited chronic resources, we use more of our general funds to this end,” said Bever. “Other community awareness programs and essential services: cancer prevention, access to vaccines, everything on which our families and schools and our communities count, these things will be affected.”
A potential emergency that Bever and others are preparing: measles, one of the most contagious human diseases.
Neighboring Kansas and Colorado have recently reported epidemics. Several local health directors and UNMC’s Rupp said that it was a matter of time until an epidemic of similar measles occurs in Nebraska.
RUPP said local health services would be essential to the initial response to any infectious disease, be it measles, bird flu or a new unknown virus. In his estimate, this is worth the cost of having well -formed and well -funded public health teams capable of taking up the next challenge.
“When public health works appropriately, no one hears about it, because they take care of many things and prevent a lot of problems,” said Rupp. “It is only when he is underfunded and under -strengthened, and cannot do the work we want them to do – (the work) that they want to be able to do – that it becomes problematic.”
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