Arkansas has been granted $17M by the US Department of Health and Human Services to further improve the health of pregnant women, new mothers, and babies.

Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government. Her tenure at HHS ran concurrent with an explosion in state legislation targeting transgender people.

Arkansas has been awarded a $17 million grant, the Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid

She's pictured in a conference room at HHS headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Maansi Srivastava for NPR) This story originally appeared on NPR. In 2021, the country had one state with a ban on gender-affirming care for youth on the books — Arkansas.

This story first appeared in The 19th. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will restore sweeping power to anti- abortion activists’ staunchest ally, who many in the movement once deemed “the most pro-life president” in the nation’s history.

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That’s thanks to House Speaker MIKE JOHNSON. He alone has the discretion to pick the membership of the panel, and over the past few days, he gave it a MAGA makeover.

The proposals include rolling back the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid, which over the last 11 years added about 20 million low-income adults to its rolls. Trump has said he wants to drastically cut government spending, which may be necessary for Republicans to extend 2017 tax cuts that expire at the end of this year.