It turns out Vice President Mike Pence has been up to something other than praising Trump’s “broad shoulders.”
Pence has been quietly working behind the scenes to carry out the Trump administration’s goal of gutting funding for women’s health care — which he helped accomplish by installing allies from his days as governor of Indiana, which Politico described as a “cadre of officials that one HHS official called ‘Indiana mafia.’”
Installing allies whom he had relationships with back in Indiana — such as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Seema Verma — have helped Pence push for one of his key priorities: defunding Planned Parenthood.
View the complete article by Emily Singer on the National Memo website here.