Politico December 8, 2025
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THE FIGHT FOR FUNDING — States are pledging to enact White House-favored policies for a chance to win bigger shares of a $50 billion rural health fund that Congress and President Donald Trump created in July, POLITICO’s Alice Miranda Ollstein, Ruth Reader and Liz Crampton report.
In pitches submitted in November to the Rural Health Transformation Program, state officials described a crisis in rural America — an explosion of chronic illnesses, hours-long drives for basic services, a scourge of addiction — and laid out their plans for turning things around.
But in a bid to get more funding, several also vowed to change their own laws, like restricting low-income people from using food benefits to buy junk...
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