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Wisconsin would lose $314M in federal food assistance under ‘big, beautiful bill’

Wisconsin would lose about $314 million in food assistance from the federal government under the massive budget bill passed by the U.S. House early Thursday, according to an an analysis of the proposed cuts by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

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RFK Jr. claims federal ‘team’ is in Milwaukee for school lead crisis, city says there isn’t

On Tuesday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a Senate committee there was a federal "team" in the city from the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. The Milwaukee Health Department disputed Kennedy's statement.

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