Niamh Ordner was a 2025 environment, health and science intern at the Los Angeles Times. She is an undergraduate student at Rice University studying integrative biology, with research experience in plant molecular biology and computational cancer genomics. She joined The Times in 2025 as an AAAS Mass Media Fellow, sponsored by the American Statistical Assn.
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The massive Republican tax bill signed by Trump is expected to soon claw $750 million per year from the L.A. County Department of Health Services, which oversees four public hospitals and roughly two dozen clinics.
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