The Maryland Department of Health held a second inter-agency roundtable last week to generate ideas to help residents maintain access to health care and social safety net programming in the face of cuts made under President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill .

“Working together with our state and community partners, we will protect access to quality health care and services for all Marylanders,” Dr. Meena Seshamani, the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health, said in a statement Thursday. “We are putting the health and well-being of our residents front and center, taking a strategic, intentional approach to mitigating burdensome changes as a result of recent federal policies.”

Trump signed H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, on July 4. The legislation mak

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