Daily News Roundup: ACLU Goes to Grass Roots in Anti-Trump Campaign

ACLU Mounts “People Power” Effort to Challenge Trump Policies: The campaign, launched over the weekend with a rally in Miami and house parties nationwide, aims to channel the American Civil Liberties Union’s swelling coffers and membership ranks into a protest movement resisting White House actions on immigration, health care, and other issues, writes The Washington Post.

Fire-Safety Charity Defends Seven-Figure Salaries: The National Fire Protection Association paid outgoing CEO James Shannon $4.1 million in 2014, and its chief financial officer earned $1.2 million, reports The Boston Globe. The nonprofit said those figures included lump-sum payouts of accrued retirement benefits and that its work developing safety standards worldwide required it to “hire and compensate the right people to run an effective operation.”

N.J. Hospitals’ Charity-Care Bills Plunged Under Obamacare: New Jersey’s 72 hospitals spent $480 million on free or discounted treatment in 2015 compared with more than $1 billion two years earlier as hundreds of thousands of residents gained insurance under the Affordable Care Act, NJ Advance Media writes, citing new figures from the state Department of Health.

In other Obamacare news, hospital leaders across the country are raising concerns that Republican plans to undo the health-care law will disproportionately hit low-income patients and send charity-care costs back up, particularly if the measure’s Medicaid expansion is rolled back, reports the Associated Press.

Museums Weigh Response to Tumultuous Political Times: The New York Times looks at how the social and political upheaval of the Trump era is shaping exhibitions and other programming and prompting institutions to think about how reacting, or not reacting, to current events reflects their roles as curators of the historical and artistic past.

Opinion: In Health Care, Crowdfunding Will Go Only So Far: More people struggling with medical costs are taking to sites like GoFundMe and YouCaring, but crowdfunding — with its emphasis on individual narratives and reliance on subjective, emotional donor responses — can’t fix systemic inequalities in the health-care system and might perpetuate them, writes Anne Helen Petersen, a senior culture writer for BuzzFeed News.