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Trump's budget proposes deep cuts to HHS |
President Trump's "skinny budget" request for fiscal year 2026 includes massive cuts to federal health agencies, including a quarter of the Department of Health and Human Services'(HHS) discretionary budget, the White House revealed Friday. |
That doesn't include coverage programs like Medicare and Medicaid. The Trump administration said the cuts were justified because they eliminated programs and agencies considered duplicative, "woke," unnecessary or a failure by the previous administration. The proposal calls for the elimination of funding for programs like the National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. White House budget requests are often aspirational documents. They give a view of the administration's priorities but usually differ from what Congress inevitably adopts. However, Republicans in Congress have been deferential to Trump. Overall, the budget seeks to cut $33.3 billion in funding for HHS — which amounts to 26.6 percent reduction compared to the enacted level for fiscal year 2025. This reduction includes: - A $3.6 billion cut to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- An $18 billion reduction for the National Institutes of Health, the largest proposed cut in the budget
- A $674 million reduction for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Program Management
- A $240 million reduction for the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response Hospital Preparedness Program.
- There is only one health program that gains any discretionary funding: $500 million for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's Make American Healthy Again Commission, which was created by an executive order earlier this year.
These funds would allow "allow the Secretary to tackle nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety across HHS," according to the document. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she has "serious objections" to parts of the request, including cuts to biomedical research. |
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) said Thursday it will target four House Republicans in the quest to preserve funds for Medicaid. The party will seek to pressure GOP Reps. Tom Barrett (Mich.), Don Bacon (Neb.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) to vote in favor of protecting the joint federal-state health ... |
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Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra decried the Trump administration’s “skinny budget” request unveiled Friday, lambasting it as not a budget proposal but a “demolition plan.” In the proposal, President Trump called for cutting $33.3 billion or 26.2 percent of the HHS’s discretionary funding. These requested cuts included a $3.6 billion reduction in discretionary … |
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The U.S. broke a 15-year record for pediatric flu deaths this season, according to federal data released Friday. There were 216 children who died this season, according to a preliminary count from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the most since 2009 when there was a global swine flu pandemic. This year also broke a record for deaths in a nonpandemic season set during 2023-24. Flu activity is … |
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Planned Parenthood chapters sue over Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program restrictions |
Planned Parenthood chapters across several states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging new terms that would hinder their continued participation in a long-standing program aimed at preventing teenage pregnancy. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified recipients of national Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) funds on March 31 that to continue in the program they must show … |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- Montana lawmakers approve $124 million to revamp behavioral health system (KFF Health News)
- Bill that would make vaccine exemptions easier advances in the Texas House (The Texas Tribune)
- Fewer teens are smoking, but Florida health officials want to do better (WUSF)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom (Stat)
- U.S. measles cases hit 935 as RFK Jr pushes treatment study (Bloomberg)
- Wegovy treated a serious form of liver disease in a major clinical trial (NBC News)
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President Trump unveiled the White House budget request for fiscal 2026 on Friday, a set of proposals that would make steep cuts to nondefense programs … Read more |
| Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unloaded a heap of criticism Friday on recent actions and inactions by the Trump administration and fellow Republicans, … Read more |
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