It's Wednesday, April 16th.
I'm Jane Costa, and this is What A Day, the show that enjoys our occasional series.
Let's listen to Republican legislators get booed by their own constituents.
Today, it's Republican Representative Brian Mast in Jupiter, Florida, attempting to defend Trump's tariff regime.
On today's show, Trump doubles, triples, quadruples down on sending U.S.
citizens to foreign gulags,
and the president signs a redundant memorandum barring undocumented immigrants from receiving benefits they already can't get.
But let's start with public health.
Remember that?
The whole field of public health?
This week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.
has been on a tour across the country, taking his Make America Healthy Again agenda on the road.
On Tuesday, he was in Indiana,
where he joined the state's Republican governor to announce multiple executive orders aimed at banning people who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
a.k.a.
food stamps, from using their benefits to buy candy and soda.
But he also addressed new data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shows the rate of autism has increased here in the U.S.
One out of 20 boys having autism, one out of 31 kids.
And when I was in my generation today, the rate of autism is one in 10,000.