Jonathan Cohn

**Some Personal News** THE TEN YEAR WAR, my new book, is available for pre-order. It’s an effort to tell the story of Obamacare and, more broadly, the story of American politics over the last decade. (1) read.macmillan.com/lp/ten-year-wa…

If the White House doesn't nominate a person to serve as #CDC director by March 25, the administration will not be able to have someone serving in the role of acting CDC director. ⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰⏰

Multiple vaccines offer benefits beyond protecting the vaccinated individual from the disease the vaccine targets. Some protect fetuses in the womb, some protect people who are immunocompromised, some protect seniors. As vax rates fall, these benefits are threatened. statnews.com/2026/03/19/vac…

One driving force behind overmedication at nursing homes is understaffing. Last year, after receiving donations from the industry, the Trump admin got rid of a federal rule requiring a minimum level of staffing for patient safety. nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/…

As the world falls apart, so does the U.S. scientific system: >40% of NIH-funded scientists are canceling research >25% are laying off staff Two-thirds are telling students to leave academia The effects of this will be deep and felt for a very long time.

🚨Exclusive: Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/d… w/ @jonallendc @Mdixon55 @strickdc

Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…

ICE seizes DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU. Trump admin is not renewing "Dreamers" who were given legal status as children to stay in U.S. -- says they can now be detained and deported. @lbarronlopez ms.now/news/ice-detai…

Disappointing to have a hearing on the topic of immigrants and an aging population and, unless I missed it, not one mention of the millions of home health aides, nursing assistants, nursing home workers we desperately need.

.@RebeccaDRobbins sent secret shoppers into international pharmacies to find out whether TrumpRX really offers the lowest drug prices in the world. It does not.

Would have funded the ACA tax credits that Trump killed, doubling health care premiums for millions, for most of a decade. All for “an excursion.”

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Nobody could've predicted this. (Note: EVERYONE WITH A BRAIN COULD'VE PREDICTED THIS.)

MAHA?!? Perhaps not surprising based on RFK Jr. being spotted going to DC tanning salons but doesn't seem to healthy... aad.org/news/statement…

Fun fact: Most of the electricity generated in Iowa (Chuck Grassley) and South Dakota (Thune) is generated by wind turbines, and their states have among the lowest electric rates in the US.

NEW at @BulwarkOnline I wrote about the big court ruling against RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccination crusade And why it’s such a big deal even if the decision doesn’t survive appeal thebulwark.com/p/somebody-fin…

RFK Jr. has spent the past year systematically dismantling federal support for vaccines. Until recently, Kennedy had run into little resistance. But this week he suffered a major setback—and it came at the hands of the judiciary. @CitizenCohn reports.

Even among Trump voters, helping workers who lose jobs to AI beats giving tech companies incentives to keep innovating 50% to 24%. Overall it's 58-20.

NEW: TrumpRx has exactly *ONE* new discount that wasn't previously available. It's a total marketing scam. americanprogress.org/article/trumpr…

A judge has blocked the Trump admin from implementing sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule. The ruling also reversed decisions made by a panel of HHS Secy. RFK Jr. appointees. @CitizenCohn and Dr. Debra Houry join @AnaCabrera to discuss. ms.now/ana-cabrera-re…

owe my career to this fellowship. It’s amazing and unique in an industry increasingly devoid of mentorship