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The national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth went dead. States are scrambling to help.

States including Nevada are scrambling to backfill LGBTQ+ crisis support through training, fees, and other initiatives in response to what advocates say is the Trump administration’s hostile stance toward this group.

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Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) during the 28th annual Lake Tahoe Summit.

D.C. Download: How Cortez Masto, Rosen might vote on Trump Cabinet nominees

Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) will be part of the minority next year, and as such, likely won’t swing any decisions — President-elect Donald Trump can afford to lose three Republican votes on any nominee. But it’s their first opportunity to take stances on Trump policy via his personnel and question them on Nevada-specific issues.

OPINION: 2025 could get pretty trippy

If he becomes secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be in a position to alter the generally prohibitionist attitudes within such agencies and clear the way for reformists to start making serious progress on psychedelics. 

Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) during the 28th annual Lake Tahoe Summit.

D.C. Download: Nevada Dems rush to get bills through Congress before GOP takeover

The lame duck period also provides the senators with their last opportunities to make requests of the outgoing president — important, given that many constituents are calling on Biden to Trump-proof the federal government with new regulations or policies, and that the next president will be far less inclined to listen to feedback from Democratic senators.

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