{"id":37745,"date":"2025-12-17T23:34:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/american-academy-of-pediatrics-loses-government-funding-after-criticizing-rfk-jr\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:34:28","slug":"american-academy-of-pediatrics-loses-government-funding-after-criticizing-rfk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/american-academy-of-pediatrics-loses-government-funding-after-criticizing-rfk-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"American Academy of Pediatrics loses government funding after criticizing RFK Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP<\/p>\n<p>The US department of health and human services (HHS) has terminated several multi-million-dollar grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics following the association\u2019s criticisms of health secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a>\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>The funding cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and early identification of autism, were first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/12\/17\/aap-hhs-funding-rfk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by the Washington Post and made without prior notice to the AAP.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/17\/american-academy-pediatrics-funding-rfk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuts, which affect projects focused on issues including early identification of autism, made without prior notice to AAP The US department of health and human services (HHS) has terminated several multi-million-dollar grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics following the association\u2019s criticisms of health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s policies. The funding cuts, which affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 20:46:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}