The Trump Administration began restricting health care access for Americans on Day 1.

Within his first 48 hours back in office, Trump has signed several executive orders that threaten the healthcare of millions of Americans.

Amid a flurry of executive orders, some of which were signed live on TV on inauguration night, the US president issued several orders that repeal Biden-era directives that had expanded healthcare access and options for lower-income and middle-class Americans.

Those orders are expected to affect the medical insurance coverage for upwards of 20 million people in the US.

But none of this compares to what the GOP is about to do with Medicaid.

House Republicans have unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill,” at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks....
A preliminary estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the proposals would reduce the number of people with health care by 8.6 million over the decade.
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The primary result is health care coverage being taken away from eligible Americans.
We know this because nearly everyone on Medicaid who can work already is. We also know this because states like Georgia and Arkansas have experimented with work requirements to disastrous results. In the latter state, for example, some 18,000 Arkansans lost coverage, even though researchers found “nearly everyone targeted by the policy already met the requirements.”

The idea that you can take away health care from millions, maybe tens of millions of Americans, and people are going to get healthier, is illogical.
And then came DOGE.

But even as he extols MAHA, Trump has unleashed a slew of policies likely to make Americans less healthy. He’s slashing 20,000 full time positions from HHS and cutting more than $4 billion in indirect costs related to health research grants, including studies into treatment for Alzheimer’s and cancer. He also supported a GOP plan likely to kneecap Medicaid, a joint federal-state program that covers about 72 million Americans.

The contradictions raise doubts about the sincerity of Trump’s support for the MAHA agenda and his administration’s commitment to making a dent in chronic disease — conditions that afflict about 133 million Americans and account for roughly 90% of the $4.5 trillion spent annually in the U.S. on health care.

Lastly, let's not forget what hunger does to people's health.

House Republicans made their priorities apparent in their recent proposal, released by the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, to enact the largest Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cut in history. The package aims to cut $290 billion (nearly 30 percent) from SNAP, largely by shifting benefit costs to states for the first time, linking this new cost-sharing formula to state error rates. The package would also expand burdensome paperwork requirements to older Americans and families with children and freeze future benefit increases that would help households adjust to rising food costs.