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Julie Rovner, KFF Health News\u2019 chief Washington correspondent and host of the What the Health?<\/em> podcast, recently spoke with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) about the ongoing fight between President Donald Trump and Congress over control of federal spending.<\/p>\n Baldwin, who is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said lawmakers have been forced to take unprecedented action to ensure the Trump administration properly spends taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n \u201cIn this most recently passed bill that Donald Trump signed into law, we had to put guardrails that we\u2019ve never had to put into our appropriations laws before to enforce our spending bills,\u201d Baldwin said. \u201cAnd those laws have made it clear that we expect that they must spend what we have appropriated, and not just all of it at the end of the fiscal year, but in a timely manner throughout the year.\u201d<\/p>\n The conversation also addressed the success \u2014 and Trump-imposed limitations \u2014 of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The resource, which was created through a bipartisan effort, has led to a notable reduction in youth suicide, according to research published last month<\/a> in the Journal of the American Medical Association.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s heartwarming to know that this work matters,\u201d Baldwin said.<\/p>\n This interview aired May 14 on Episode No. 446 of What the Health? From KFF Health News<\/em>: \u201cIn Search of a New FDA Commissioner<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n