Trump Administration Offers Federal Workers Payouts, and Kennedy’s Senate Test

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Judge Stays Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze, but Disruption to Medicaid Sows Fear, by Michael D. Shear
Kennedy, Polarizing Pick for Health Secretary, Makes His Senate Debut, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg
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