It's Wednesday, April 16th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today.

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.

These are all right. to defend Trump's terror regime.

That's not a godly thing you're saying in a church.

And what we're going to get to is a potty mouth in a church. 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 used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka 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.

And this is just one disease. Our whole, this whole generation of kids is one in 10,000. And this is just one disease. This whole generation of kids

is damaged by chronic disease. The CDC's report attributed the spike to increased awareness

and better screening. I claim that Kennedy threw cold water on in a separate press release

from HHS. He said, quote, the increase in autism spectrum disorder

prevalence cannot be solely attributed to the expansion of diagnoses to include higher functioning

children. Since Kennedy took over the Department of Health and Human Services just two months ago,

his chairman office has been a study in, let's say, contrasts. See, there's a stuff that HHS does, really important

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