The Dark Side of Joe Rogan, RFK Jr, & the $140 Billion Peptide Industry

Aug 4

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PDS Published 08/04/2026

You now have the Joe Rogan of the FDA, thanks to RFK being even crazier than you with this peptide controversy now being center stage and the Cyclospora diarrhea parasite, has now killed two people. the Democrats is secret. Election autopsy has now gotten even messier. a top FBI agent who stole a million bucks in crypto, just got betrayed by his best friend, GPT. we're talking about all of that. And even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show. You daily dive into the news, starting with this. We need to talk about this peptide situation, right. It's an industry valued in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And it could actually be worth more than double in just a few years, at least partly thanks to Health Secretary RFK Jr, given his friends in the industry saying how it should be in. The popularity of peptides has skyrocketed over just the past few years, as they've kind of become the latest cure all trend on social look left and right. You see wellness influencers, fitness coaches, celebrities touting their effectiveness, everything including recovering from injuries, getting jacked, improving cognitive function, fixing your and then you'll also often see many of those same creators guiding their followers to online stores that might sell injectable vials for hundreds of a while longevity and wellness clinics that are near you. They might offer in-office evaluations and treatments, with membership fees sometimes costing thousands every but also all of this. It starts with a simple question of well, what are because while seemingly new to many, it's not really though certain ones You can think of peptides as smaller and simpler versions of short chains of amino acids responsible for various important functions in the human have been identified. Many more probably exist. And each one has a unique and very special those include hormone activity, immune defense, tissue repair and growth, control of inflammation, digestion, you name and you're actually probably familiar with some of the peptides that your body endorphins, for example, they released by the central nervous system to block pain signals and relieve stress, insulin. It's made in the pancreas to regulate the body's blood and also of course, it is mass produced in high tech manufacturing facilities as treatment for diabetes. then of course there are also the GOP one drugs like and we'll go that are similarly used to treat diabetes as well as obesity and actually overall they're around 100 peptide medications already approved by the FDA. that's why people like a stem cell biologist at UC Davis there's no reason to think there aren't going to be dozens of other peptide drugs that are going to be proven safe and end, to that point, there are already around 150 other peptide drugs in clinical but also very likely a number of the ones that you are seeing promoted online are not right, not already approved by the FDA, and not even ones in clinical trials. and a lot of the hype that you've seen has been mostly focused on injectable peptides with names like BPC 157 and TB 500. would you might have also heard of for another reason, because they're banned by international sports authorities as doping substances. for those who aren't competing professionally. The combination is known as the so-called Wolverine stack, because it's supposed to give you healing powers like a superhero. and you may have also seen it promoted by none other than the world's biggest and highest paid podcaster, Joe ever get injured, get immediately on BP 157 and TB 500. here's the thing. BPC 157, TB 500 and many of these other popular peptides, well, they may have helped Rogan and others. Well they very well may have real therapeutic potential. They've also been barely studied in humans and instead a lot of the evidence for their purported effectiveness. it comes from studies and rats and other animals. so you have this raising concerns that they could cause allergic reactions, metabolic problems and other dangerous side effects. I mean, just looking at BPC 157 had a research team from the University of Utah looking into it. And they only managed to dig up three pilot studies on BBC 157 with a total of 30 participants. so you had one of the team members saying the amount of human data that exists for it is of dubious enough quality that you can essentially just ignore saying there are no long term studies, there are no safety studies, even in and that, I mean, if I even need to say it is a big deal, because even if there is a very real upside, what if there is also a or because if BBC 157 it really heals tissue damage, reportedly by promoting the formation of new blood vessels, it could also promote tumor right, at least according to experts like one emergency medicine physician at Elmhurst Hospital in Illinois who told it probably could. And we don't know unless it's a trial and so the uncertainty you have there, it also goes for many of these peptides that you're seeing being promoted so people like Eric Topola, research methods expert and director of Scripps Research Transnational Institute, arguing None of them are proven. None of them have gone through what would be considered adequate clinical trials. But nonetheless, many people are taking actually quite extraordinary. then you have him even more concerned because people are stacking multiple peptides together. it's not just this so-called Wolverine stack. You have people online saying they take three, four even more at the same you have Topol saying, this is really what I consider dangerous, and adding that it's all part of the circus of unproven, expensive and possibly dangerous offerings promoted in this so then with all this, if you're wondering, okay, well, is this legal? not really any substance that's injected to get a health benefit or prevent a medical condition is classified as a drug. And drugs can't be sold without FDA Right. And then on top of that, the agency already considers many peptides to be what are known as biologics. which are the most complicated and potentially high risk types of drugs and require extra safeguards during manufacturing and but there is what's been seen as a see in recent years, if you were to buy BPC 157 or something similar, it likely would have been labeled for research purposes since you have people that are actually selling and buying them for health reasons, it's become what's often described as a gray market that you also have many pushing back on that with one longevity expert telling nature. there's nothing gray about it. And adding it is illegal for people to sell experimental therapies on the internet for human consumption. and then that also brings up a whole other risk to injecting peptides, which is that even if the product you want works, you might not be getting that product, or at least not exactly for example, in one preprint study from this year, researchers looked at publicly available data for 14 peptides from a third party testing what you had them finding was that out of the 6000 samples from 203 companies, more than 40% failed to meet even basic purity and dose with a UC Davis biologist explaining research grade peptides are going to have junk in They're going to have chemicals used in the purification process and fragments of peptides that you don't now with all that over the past years, the FDA has actually been trying to crack down on the space, at least you've had them sending warning letters to businesses promoting peptides with immune boosting powers. in 2023, the agency added nearly 20 peptides, including BCP 157, to a list of substances compounding pharmacies are barred from making. But still. Despite that, it's believed that most of the injectable peptides sold in the US today. They're produced in if you're not familiar, there are these specialized facilities that can normally only make tailored versions of drugs for individual patients that aren't available from drug manufacturers. These places exist, at least in theory, so that people who can't swallow pills or who need unique doses of their meds or something, they can get the treatment that they also a huge thing is that they're not regulated by the FDA. And so you have some saying they are more likely to make mistakes. so, people pointing to things like in 2012, for example, a compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts shipped out meds that hadn't been stored properly in 64 people, ended up dead, 750 got sick, and some had new medical issues that never went but the FDA. They couldn't take any action since compounding pharmacies do not fall under their authority. and so that makes them very, very appealing to companies who want to sell a product that lacks evidence. and so with that. During the Covid pandemic, many people got unproven treatments like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin from compounding pharmacies. and now, they may also be the loophole that allows the already multi-billion dollar peptide industry to really blow it's important to note that the way we got here is that in special situations, namely when there's a shortage of a drug that is mass produced, compounding pharmacies can get permission to make it as that's what you saw happen in 2022 with the GLP Or which like I mentioned earlier, they are peptides. And they've also become so massively popular over the past few the walls. o in 2025, the FDA determined that the shortage of GOP ones it had ended, meaning that compounds were expected to halt but many have also just continued making custom versions of the drugs and then also some of the industries new production capacity went into producing unapproved peptides like BPC 157. with that. Nathaniel Lachman, a lawyer who specializes in related issues, saying that until now there had never been the monetary incentive to push the envelope of what is legally permissible with compounding. dollars weren't but now the dollars definitely are. And so may be the political because our resident roadkill lover RFK, he is long vowed and what he called the FDA's war on peptides and his friends and associates, they're among their biggest proponents, including, for example, self-described bio hacker and longevity expert Gary right. He has millions of followers on social media, and he sells peptide injectables, patches and nasal sprays through his website for 350 to 600 bucks and that includes some that the FDA has flagged for serious safety and while if you read the labels they're only for research soon you might even have to bother with that whole at least for some of the products because back in February, you had RFK appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast, and he was asked about when he'd like to make moves on peptides. And he said I'm a big fan of peptides. I've used them myself and used them with really good effect, with him then claiming that the FDA's decision under Biden to bar compounding pharmacies or making certain peptides was illegal, then just a couple of months later, rather than trying to improve access to peptides by calling for more research to prove their safety and effectiveness and then make them available to patients, the FDA, they just began the process of removing many of the regulatory barriers that keep peptides from being legally made by compounding pharmacies, you had it specifically proposing that several be moved out of the significant safety risk category and into one that would allow compounding pharmacies to legally make them without backing and actually sometimes even without an it also removed a number of experts from the so-called compounding advisory panel. and then six of the eight people chosen to replace them. There are people who sell or otherwise have a stake in the peptides industry, while some of the others Besides Hawking peptides, you have them running clinics that offer unproven treatments like ozone therapy and energy had it seeming like such a blatant conflict of interest that you had people like the president of the center for science and the Public Interest think we have seen an extraordinary abuse of the advisory committee process to secure ends that have no basis in science. of course, right now there's nothing stopping and last month, you had the six peptide sellers joining with a compounding pharmacy and a pharmacy exec to vote 8 to 6 in favor of adding BPC 157 to a list of products that compounding pharmacies can dispense. that's along with several other popular peptides. the FDA, it still has to formally adopt the recommendations before the peptides can be legally compounded. And it's not 100% confirmed if and when this will happen. The industry has long been betting on good Samsung Biologics, for example, they recently announced plans to buy a Swiss peptide ingredient manufacturing company for about $1.8 billion, the telehealth company Hymns and Hers. It already purchased a peptide manufacturing facility last year, and they're building out a clinical strategy for the substances, putting them in one of the best spots to capitalize on any changes and then with that, the initial move by the FDA to get this process going back in had it sending the company's shares soaring nearly 50% over the course of a single then the advisory panels vote saw them going up almost another 8% with one estimate suggesting that the company will occupy a whole one fifth of a $2.2 billion expansion of the peptides market in the US just next and that's as I mentioned, overall, it's been estimated that the global market for peptides, which has already been valued at around $140 billion, it could top $295 billion by 2023 if the Trump administration relaxes manufacturing Right. And if the agency follows the panel's recommendation, they make all that money without having to run large trials, publish results, or convince independent scientists. so you have this situation where this multi-billion dollar industry that's promising to make you feel stronger, better and healthier. It may get to just keep growing without ever having to prove its products remember this is not about villains. All peptides. Again, there are actually over 100 peptide medications already approved by the it's now more than ever turned into a situation of science and safety versus quick profits.
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but then diving right back into the news, we've got to talk about this scandal that just will not stop scandal involving the DNC. the Democratic National Committee. because, as you might remember, they drafted that 2024 autopsy that was meant to diagnose how the Democrats could actually lose to Trump in the last election. and when he was elected to reform the party last year, you and the DNC new chair, Ken Martin, pledging to release the full report when it was done. but then what you saw last December is that he backtracked. He said, actually, we're just going to release an executive summary with lessons for the future. so then after promising a full throttle deep dive, but then just kind of given the tip and going, and ended up making a lot of people upset right. Because you had them feeling like party leadership. They weren't being transparent about their failures. then you had that leading to things like this very contentious interview with Martin on Pod Save America. Why not release the full report? What's in the report that you wouldn't want? Well, first publicize yeah. There's no smoking gun in the report. And I know that's that's what everyone's so eager to learn. The smoking gun. Guess what, John? But if there's no smoking gun, why wouldn't you just release it? That because we want to keep the focus on the lessons. Because what ends up happening here is that people, of course, want to weaponize the report in a way to look backwards, to point fingers, place blame in a way that actually doesn't keep us focused on the upcoming election, so the backlash against Martin, it just gets worse from there. And then in May, you have the DNC finally releasing what it said was the report in its entirety. and we had a lot of people, Duncan, on what they considered a mass and people going, oh, my God, what what were the real lessons? They were even going towards Now you got the guy who wrote the autopsy, Paul Rivera, claiming that the version that the DNC released was actually missing a chapter. and you actually at the New York Times publishing it in full, it's titled What Happened in 2024. And as you might have guessed, it, addresses some of the politically delicate subjects that were left out of the report. first off, you have it stating, is there a single point of failure for 2020 for saying perhaps it is a decision of the president to seek reelection instead of passing the torch. explaining that his approval in Gallup polls it drop below 50% after the Afghanistan pullout never recovered. also Biden's own internal polling, it showed the same thing that he was underwater nationally and in key states. also in the 22 midterms, turnout from young voters as well as black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American voters. That was down, one 2024 campaign planners knew that according to this chapter, they could not fix the problem. And so it it concludes. what Democrats now have to accept is, no matter the circumstances, the party should be strong enough and capable enough to elect anyone the proverbial ham sandwich, if necessary. because Republicans have now proven they can nominate and elect a convicted felon. the chapter, this is a key thing also argues that what standing between the Democratic Party that we have and the Democratic Party that we need are the established Democrats themselves. yes, Mitch. because you have it noting that an emerging critique of democratic decision making is that there are too many people who have become generationally wealthy, off politics and drive too much of the decision making within the ecosystem. you have the chapter adding, this is deeply frustrating to many Democratic strategists, activists and donors who want to try a different set of politics but keep banging their heads up against a system proven to be inflexible and self enriching. then goes on to say that many of the senior campaign staff, media strategists, pollsters and consultants are financially secure and insulated from the reality. Most Americans lived. so as a result, they missed important signals about why people were frustrated with Democrats who seem not to appreciate or understand their situation. Now, I also want to note here for you that there is a pretty heated dispute about whether this chapter was really omitted from the report, because you have the author, Ribeiro, claiming that back in January printed out the full report with this chapter included. He gave it to Martin during a private meeting. but you, Martin, actually denying that saying. Yeah, we met and yeah, he gave me the report, but it didn't include this chapter. And he added, I or the DNC had report materials that went after self enriching consultants, we absolutely would have included them. we've got Ribeiro telling the times whether that was a conscious decision on their part to bury the section for the purposes of hiding a paragraph. I don't know. a dumb question. What I can tell you is they had it and they made a decision not to release and with all that, I will say that it is a bit hard to discern who's telling the truth here. the for his part, Ribeiro gave the times a word doc of the chapter with metadata showing that it was last edited right before the meeting with Martin. and then the version of the report that was released, there is a section where the chapter would have been, but it's listed as pending, and it has an annotation saying this section was not provided by author. it's actually not out of the ordinary for this report because other sections had the same note, including the executive summary. and that then goes to another issue that not just Martin, but many party members have with the whole report that's that it's just not very good. official, they said that they only change their minds about releasing it after they realized how shoddy it was. and you had them pointing to Rivera's use of cliches, data without sources and numbers contradicted by public data, is then white. When the full report came out, each page included a bright red disclaimer that the DNC was not provided with the underlying sourcing interviews, or supporting data from any of the assertions contained here in. and it's also why you have some dismissing this amended chapter out of hand with, for example, that former Biden advisor and current DNC member John McCarthy saying. so let me get this straight. The operative behind the botched Democratic autopsy on why we lost decided that 90 days before a midterm, it is the perfect time to air it all out. we are supposed to listen. That's political malpractice. We have elections to win. Focus on November. But at the same time, whether this autopsy thing has merit or not, there is growing frustration with Ken Martin's leadership in general. we have some, you know, pointing to all this drama and the perceived lack of transparency, you have others taking issue with his management of the party's finances and debt. because as it turns out, the DNC is reportedly so short on cash that its leaders are asking vendors to not send bills until after the midterms. meanwhile, it looks like Republicans are raking in donations. And, you know, people saying that Martin's nerves appear to be fraying under pressure. there you have people pointing to things like the times reporting that in July, through a phone at a desk of a junior aide. so with all this going on, you have some wanting him to step aside, others still backing him in, yet more arguing that it's not smart to cut off your head right before the midterms.
and then actually from that, let's talk about other news that's a different kind of disaster.
because you've got a man who was convicted of killing his own father, now being arrested and charged with arson for starting the biggest of three major fires, wreaking havoc on Spokane, Washington. right.
And the guy in question is 37 year old Aaron Fair in Ashland, Arizona.
Court records show that he was initially charged with first degree murder in the death of his father, but he ended up pleading guilty to manslaughter and aggravated assault in 2012.
and according to local outlets in Arizona, Ferron actually killed his father after the two had an argument over cleaning dishes.
but he was then later released from prison in 2020 after serving a 12 year sentence, and then discharged on probation in December of 2024.
but then in a press conference yesterday with the Spokane County Sheriff's Office announcing that they had arrested fair and and charged him with first degree arson in connection with the old Trails fire, which started on August 1st.
anyway, that Spokane County Sheriff John Knowles telling reporters that a witness had seen the suspect kneeling in the grass where the fire had started then after seeing smoke coming from the area, the witness called the police.
But very notably here you had Knowles adding.
Mr. fanatic was contacted in the area about a mile and a half from where the fire started and was detained, questioned
and ultimately released after being identified by our citizen witness. and you then had him going on to explain that.
Well, the deputies who initially stopped the suspect had very little information about the fire investigation at the time.
Investigators were able to identify him later and determined that the origin of the fire was exactly where he was seen kneeling.
When he was detained in the early stages of the fire, he was found in to be to be in possession
of some waterproof matches and a beauty The fire investigator was also to testify in these court documents
that the fire was consistent with being set by nothing other than a match or a butane lighter and igniting grass.
but also the Old Trails fire is just one of record setting wildfires that have absolutely decimated the second most populated city in Washington state.
and with that, you had governor Bob Ferguson saying that these fires are likely the worst natural disaster in Spokane history.
and in fact, according to the most recent update from local officials, around 65,000 people, over 10% of Spokane County's population have been placed under evacuation orders.
and it adds more than 700 buildings in the area have already been destroyed, and another 400 still need to be assessed.
you've got videos and images being shared on social media showing flames blazing, houses just decimated, and even people fleeing campsites by boat.
and while miraculously there have been no deaths reported as of recording.
The sheriff did say that yesterday the department was still trying to get in contact with 14 people who were involved in calls seeking evacuation help.
and it's also, as it appears of the situation will get worse before it gets better.
right as of yesterday afternoon, only with officials saying the three fires had burned more than 10,000 acres with 0% containment. but then it's also not just Spokane.
There are currently 13 active large fires in Washington as the state continues to grapple with a record setting drought.
in fact, things are so bad that you, Governor Ferguson, declaring a statewide state of emergency over the weekend.
Because you have these historic drought conditions combined with unusually high temperatures and high winds.
you have the public lands Commissioner of Washington telling reporters this year has already been one of our busiest wildfire years on record. And we just started August.
Our firefighters are already stretched thin across the state, and with more heat and wind expected this weekend and for the rest of the summer.
then at the same time, over in Oregon, there are reportedly 32 active large fires, the most of any state with new fires over the weekend bringing fresh evacuation orders.
and actually now Oregon's broken its all time wildfire acreage record fires this year have already topped more than 2 million acres burned, and there's still two more months left in the traditional fire season.
and that's as all this goes beyond the Pacific Northwest.
According to CNN, wildfires have burned more than 5.1 million acres nationwide this year. That's already bigger than the entire total acreage last year.
And again, it's only August.
and I said yesterday, you had at least 29,000 firefighters battling more than 100 uncontained large fires nationally. the Pacific Northwest like that has been hit especially hard.
according to reports, nearly half of the nation's active large fires are concentrated just in Washington and Oregon alone.
any by the National Weather Service expecting wildfires and poor air quality to continue across the PNW, the Rockies and parts of the Plains. something we're gonna have a close eye on.
But also in the meantime, if you or your loved ones or anyone they're impacted, please, please, please stay safe, stay vigilant and take every precaution.
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Diving right back into the news for your final block today, let's cram in some more news.
You need to know starting with the fact that Michigan just reported the first two deaths from that parasite outbreak that's been given people explosive diarrhea for months while those people reportedly had underlying health conditions that could have made their symptoms worse.
We don't know the specifics also whatever the case, this is causing some concern because Cyclospora it's rarely or the symptoms. They can be persistent.
But officials say that most people with a healthy immune system, they usually a big catch there is dehydration With that, any extra health issues on top of the parasite?
It can be the difference between life and so that's why you have medical experts saying these recent deaths show that there are some patients that might not be able to withstand the dehydration, that can come with severe and that can end up being scary.
Because there are millions of immunocompromised people in the United and that's as you have an outbreak that's hitting record numbers right right. So they're going to have to try to avoid it.
Well you have people complaining about the messaging behind this outbreak being confusing which just makes the problem and just one of the ways you're seeing that play out is you have a lot of people avoiding lettuce right now.
But officials are also saying that one implicated food, it doesn't explain everything.
as you got more and more people saying it feels like we're being fed information that doesn't really fit with what the data is telling arguing. You have officials saying this is under control.
It's all good while you have case counts even also have the news that DHS and Ice officials are now forcing Haitian immigrants with protected status to wear
Ice Forces Protected Immigrants In Ohio To Wear Ankle Monitors
ankle monitors, restricting their travel even if they haven't committed any And you have it happening in Springfield, Ohio.
They're making them go to these check in appointments at Ice reportedly got no crimes, no suspicion of anything.
They just show up and leave with ankle monitors being told that they have to stay within a 75 mile radius of their and so far, it looks like they've already done to about 50 but also their reportedly going to be working their way
through the community as time goes well for context, officials have made immigrants where ankle monitors before immigration experts they have been used with people who have criminal records or had missed court hearings or an order of deportation.
with this move, you got people saying their motives appear because it's coming after the Supreme Court told the Trump administration that they could end temporary protections for Haitians back in a move
that many have called embarrassing, and saying there is no safe place to return for TPS holders from places like and while they can't fully end the program until lower courts officially issue in order
to put the ruling in place with this move, immigration attorneys are saying that Ice is setting up circumstances that make it easier to detain immigrants. yet others saying it's the government's way is signaling we know where you are.
We are monitoring you closely, and we have the ability to detain you at any And now you're seeing people say, you know, they're worried about where things can go from here and scared that whatever happens next, it's going to be destabilizing for Springfield.
then also in other news, if you are ever planning a high stakes million dollar heist and I'm not saying to do it. down the mask and pencil. Just quick word of advice.
do not ask an AI chat bot that saves your search history. How to flee the country.
because that is exactly how you had this top FBI agent just torpedoing his entire life.
I want you to meet 37 year old Patrick Steven Iraq, a former FBI counterintelligence agent assigned to monitor foreign crypto accounts.
because according to court docs, he got super frustrated that the government was not shutting these accounts down fast and so he decides to take matters into his own hands
his genius idea was to use his top secret security clearance to quietly siphon around a million bucks in crypto straight into his personal wallet. the thing is.
Yeah, that being the easy part, the hard part was getting away with it. and because he had no idea how to do that.
According to the federal affidavit, he decided to log into ChatGPT to literally ask if I had a bucket of money, around $1 million
and wanted to leave the United States to become an EU resident, what would you suggest? And you would plan being for him to buy a vineyard in Portugal?
because apparently things at a million bucks not only is enough to buy a vineyard, but also retire by the time he was 40 years and.
Well, you're right, he took that advice as gospel because investigators found that he booked round trip tickets to Portugal and hired a Portuguese lawyer. with the FBI noticing the missing crypto.
And last week of it, agents confronting him at his house and his official response was, quote, I fucked up. which. Yeah, true, but also an understatement. And he was immediately fired. Arrested.
And he's now facing major federal charges for interstate transportation of stolen goods.
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then finally today you've got news that has some people worried about what exactly is about to happen to Head Trump will soon announce plans to gut Head Start without any thought of how it will hurt hundreds of thousands of children.
Trump's changes will hurt America's most vulnerable children and leave their families in the Right.
You got the Trump administration reportedly planning an overhaul that would cut the programs quality So that's over 100 pages of federal regulations outlining rules for child to teacher ratio, child health screenings, family and yeah, all of that.
It's apparently going to cut down to around a dozen pages, with the rest being left up to state and local officials.
it's with that, you've got people saying if the administration strikes down those standards, it would set back our nation's educational goals and our efforts to reduce You have sources saying that the change is coming.
It could require more documentation from parents who are homeless or unemployed, and adding extra barriers to get their kids that's as you of others saying people who are undocumented,
they won't be able to sign their kids up at all, even if they're US so the free preschool those kids need for early learning and early screening to identify any developmental delays that they might have.
All of that, it would go out the door for those and apparently those changes could be coming as soon as this in just the timing alone is kind of have this coming down in the middle of an affordability crisis
that the presidents will apparently believes is make believe a Rebecca's head start, it was specifically created as a part of LBJ's war on poverty.
and now you've got over half a million kids from low income families whose enrollment could be in you're also seeing publicly, the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees Head Start,
saying this administration remains committed to strengthening the program and adding that with this move, they just want to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens
and ensure services are delivered effectively to children and families in you also have the official who ran Head Start during the Biden administration saying that if what these sources are saying is
we'll have the carcass of Head might have a program that's called Head Start, but in substance it will not and then with that.
You've had start officials saying that when they see the official proposed regulations, they'll be ready to fight back where they need but if they'll actually be able to that remains to be seen right
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