Among the tension around HHS cuts, Kennedy meets the tribal leader
When the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had to go on stage, the governor of the Indian community of the Gila river was still standing on the podium, articulating his discomfort around the recent moves of the Trump administration."Let me repeat this: we spent a good part of this year by providing education on why the tribes have a political status that is not of the", said governor Stephen Roe Lewis to a room of 1,200 people, who applauded and applauded.When it comes to cuts sought by what has been called the government's efficiency department, "we need a scalpel and not a chain approach to make these changes," he said. The resort and casino of Gila River Wild Horse Pass in Chandler, Arizona, owned and managed by two tribes, was the last stage of the American Hales Make American Aga...