内容摘要：Manufacturers, wholesalers, PBMs and other members of the supply chain also have a motivation to maximize profits, not lower costs for consumers. In this spirit, manufacturers often use patents to make it impossible for cheaper versions of drugs to come to market. Although he repeatedly defended pharmaceutical companies at Monday’s news conference, Trump simultaneously threatened the companies with federal investigations into their practices.

Manufacturers, wholesalers, PBMs and other members of the supply chain also have a motivation to maximize profits, not lower costs for consumers. In this spirit, manufacturers often use patents to make it impossible for cheaper versions of drugs to come to market. Although he repeatedly defended pharmaceutical companies at Monday’s news conference, Trump simultaneously threatened the companies with federal investigations into their practices.

“It’s heartbreaking that people are being starved because of politics. Food and water should not be used for political purposes,” Abed told The Associated Press in the central city of Deir al-Balah.Fuad Muheisen from Deir a-Balah said if charity kitchens shut down “all of Gaza will die. No one will stay alive.”

Mnawar al-Rai said she has been displaced five times with her family and now is settled in Deir al-Balah where they tried to collect aid in recent days but came under fire.She said they have to walk to three or four locations every day to collect a plate of food to feed the children, adding that almost nothing is available in markets because “merchants are exploiting people.”Mohammed Abed said people in central Gaza grow optimistic when they hear that a ceasefire is near, only to be disappointed when a deal is not reached.

“This war has no meaning. This is the war of starvation, death, siege and long lines for food and toilets,” Abed said. “This war is the 2025 nightmare, 2024 nightmare and 2023 nightmare.”Another Gaza resident Mohammed Mreil said about the possibility of a truce that: “We want to live and we want them (Israelis) to live. God did not create us to die.”

said Friday it distributed more than 2 million of what it described as meals within four days of starting operations.

It said that on Friday it distributed six truckloads of food at one distribution point. Palestinian aid-seekers have described getting basic items like bags of pasta, rice and cans of beans.“I really truly understand how other people who are using a chair or using some kind of assistance device might be really concerned about that next stage of employment when they can’t interview and hide their disability at the same time,” she said.

Some also worry that disabled federal workers may have been disproportionately hurt by the terminations. Tighe and Goidel were hired through Schedule A, which allows a probationary period of up to two years. Other federal employees typically have one year of probation.Tighe suspects that if she hadn’t been hired through the special hiring authority, she might still have a job, given that no one else on her team was let go.

Goidel, who was converted to permanent status with full tenure in 2019, says his employment with the federal government motivated him to continue his education and pursue a master’s degree in employment law. He says the decision to slash jobs at the IRS’ EEO office will mean there are fewer federal workers able to investigate harassment claims and that could result in more litigation against the government.The White House is promoting its efforts to provide services for disabled individuals and veterans.