Politico December 19, 2025
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FLIPPING THE SCRIPT — Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are reframing health care as a culture-war issue that they’ve relied on before: restricting transgender care for children, POLITICO’s Simon J. Levien and Jessica Piper report.
This week, that battle has been playing out on Capitol Hill and in federal health agencies — and could ultimately become a focal point for next year’s midterm elections.
— In Congress, lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday that would make providing hormones or surgery to transgender children a felony and another bill on Thursday that would bar the treatments for children on Medicaid.
— At HHS, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his advisers announced a slew of rules...
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