{"id":22841,"date":"2026-05-17T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-health-cuts-complicate-federal-messaging-on-hantavirus\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:22:11","slug":"trumps-health-cuts-complicate-federal-messaging-on-hantavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-health-cuts-complicate-federal-messaging-on-hantavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s health cuts complicate federal messaging on hantavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal hantavirus response has laid bare the impact of the Trump administration&#8217;s cuts to&nbsp;U.S. and&nbsp;global health,&nbsp;renewing&nbsp;concerns among public health experts that the U.S. is not prepared for a bigger health crisis. Career scientists&nbsp;at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)&nbsp;have been fired or&nbsp;left the&nbsp;agency&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5880824-hantavirus-trump-cdc-response\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal hantavirus response has laid bare the impact of the Trump administration&#8217;s cuts to&nbsp;U.S. and&nbsp;global health,&nbsp;renewing&nbsp;concerns among public health experts that the U.S. is not prepared for a bigger health crisis. Career scientists&nbsp;at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)&nbsp;have been fired or&nbsp;left the&nbsp;agency&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}