The Department of Health and Human Services has asked some laid-off staff if they could return to work temporarily, as the department grapples with a backlog of grants that has swelled to more than a billion dollars in the wake of hurdles set up by DOGE.

President Donald Trump's administration is proposing a ban on federally funded programs for anyone who can’t show legal status, including babies in the Head Start child care program.

Donald Trump, known for his fondness for sweets, may face a change in his diet. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing to remove artificial food dyes. These dyes are found in many candies and snacks.

To the chagrin of advocates and HHS, Mars is not making promises on banning artificial dyes like others in Big Food. What that means for Trump, RFK.

A Biden-appointed judge halted Trump's HHS reorganization that would have laid off as many as 20,000 employees after 19 Democratic attorneys general sued to block reforms.

President Donald Trump's administration announced sweeping new restrictions on access to federal benefits for undocumented immigrants. Under the directives, multiple federal agencies will tighten eligibility requirements for a range of publicly funded programs.

The Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded a policy from 1998 that gave undocumented immigrants access to certain federal health benefits, such as Head Start and mental health progra | The Trump administration is clamping down on undocumented immigrant access to many federal health programs,

New federal restrictions from HHS and the Education Department will block undocumented immigrants from key preschool and postsecondary benefits.