Margaret Manto
@MargaretManto
Science & Health Policy Reporter @NOTUSreports. @MIT alum. Email me [email protected] or Signal margaretmanto.61
The MAHA Report cites studies that don’t exist. New w/ @emilyykennard: notus.org/health-science…
EXCLUSIVE: I obtained 141 pages of documents that detail an effort by the U.S. Geological Survey, which oversees the nation's geographic names, to ignore journalists' requests about Donald Trump's "Gulf of America" declaration. In @NOTUSreports: notus.org/donald-trump/g…
Former Rep. George Santos beings his prison sentence next week. FEC filings show he’s leaving behind a campaign committee that’s out of compliance with the FEC and thousands in debt to former staff and others. @NOTUSreports notus.org/congress/georg…
Love this piece in @Poynter on the @NOTUSreports fellowship program. “I think a year ago, the most significant interview I had done was interviewing a university president, and now I regularly cover the actual president.” - @JiraViolet poynter.org/reporting-edit…
In a sign of the abruptness of the leadership shuffle, the HHS website this morning still had Flick as chief of staff. It was then changed in the last hour or so to list a “Matt Bauckham” as acting chief of staff, which is a misspelling of the actual acting CoS, Matt Buckham
Those April Fool's tweets can really get ya notus.org/white-house-to…
I apologize in advance for my behavior between July 24 and October 6
Some House side eateries, including Rayburn and Dunkin, will start closing next week (July 24) for renovations for the new food options to start, per email forwarded to me from a House staffer. Others will close on August 8 during recess, like Longworth and Common Grounds.
"While Kennedy lambastes federal agencies he says are overly influenced by [pharma], he and some other [MAHA] figures ... have their own financial ties to a vast and largely unregulated $6.3 trillion global wellness industry they also support and promote." kffhealthnews.org/news/article/r…
Skiing! Wine! Concert tickets! Airplanes! A "naturally based wellness provider!" Inside the Kyrsten Sinema post-Senate spending spree experience, fueled by campaign contributions. New in @NOTUSreports: notus.org/money/kyrsten-…
Restorative reproductive medicine's relationship to the MAHA movement is like a "Venn diagram," according to one practitioner. Can RRM get the MAHA boost without getting turned into the anti-IVF scapegoat? notus.org/health-science…
Leaders of an alternative reproductive health movement are getting a boost from RFK Jr’s rise to power — even as their movement is simultaneously co-opted by conservatives who want to use it to marginalize IVF. via @MargaretManto & @OrianaBeLike notus.org/health-science…
The Supreme Court gave HHS unprecedented power over this advisory committee, which evaluates preventive health care Former members told me that such authority puts the task force’s ability to make decisions without political influence in danger notus.org/health-science…
Breaking: HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has abruptly cancelled a meeting of the advisory committee that evaluates the nation's preventative services. No reason was provided via a letter viewed by STAT. statnews.com/2025/07/09/usp…
NEW: HHS quietly announced its intention to fund the development of vaccines against two viruses it considers “material threats to national health security.” notus.org/health-science…
Incredible stuff from @byMarkAlfred
Exclusive: Internal White House emails I obtained detail the Trump administration’s scramble to strip millions from the University of Pennsylvania after a senior official told staff that “POTUS wants to see more action against universities.” notus.org/trump-white-ho…
Speaker Mike Johnson told me he's been up since 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. “I hit my quota on coffee, and I was doing Celsius,” he said. “It’s not good for us.” "I'm gonna give a floor speech and a press conference and have no idea what I'm gonna say," he laughed. @NOTUSreports
In June, I reported on a HHS grant to an Arizona-based law firm that hinted at imminent changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. RFK Jr. just confirmed that they're working on the VICP -- but without mentioning the Arizona firm notus.org/health-science…
New from me: RFK Jr. says he has brought in a team of people to work on expanding the vaccine injury compensation program — which would require help from Congress. HHS did not tell me who is on the team: statnews.com/2025/07/01/rfk…
NEW: Dems use SCOTUS rulings to galvanize their base — but they won’t do that with Skrmetti, which green lit gender-affirming care bans One Dem said it’s now a states issue Another said trans issues don’t poll well A third pointed me to the Cass report notus.org/democrats/tran…
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules insurers must cover preventive health care services But in doing so, the justices gave RFK Jr. unprecedented power over the HHS expert panel that recommends what preventive care services must be covered notus.org/health-science…
Pentagon Sends Hurricane Forecasters Scrambling After Suddenly Announcing Shutdown of Key Satellites Forecasters could miss out on “six, eight, 10 hours” of early warning about dangerous storms, one expert said. w/ @emilyykennard notus.org/climate-enviro… @NOTUSreports
💡NOTUS morning newsletter co-authors @EvanMcS and @JasJWright joined @CNNThisMorning to preview the day’s developments on Iran strikes.