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‘The safety net of the safety net’: Why education and transportation cuts are also public health cuts
Massachusetts health commissioner Robbie Goldstein says threats to public health funding are being felt nationwide
Look at Robert Goldstein’s CV, and you’ll see a small catalog of ideas the Trump administration has been working against.
He’s an infectious disease specialist; Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that the government ought to “give infectious disease a break.” He founded the Massachusetts General Hospital Transgender Health Program; on the day of his second inauguration, Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring the very existence of trans people to be a “gender ideology” based on a “false claim.” And since 2021, Goldstein has been working on public health infrastructure — first, as an adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and then as the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health — which the Trump administration has been furiously trying to dismantle.
