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The Trump administration makes plans to reduce approximately a third of the federal health budget, eliminate dozens of programs and considerably reduce health agencies, according to an internal document examined by CNN.
The preliminary memo, sent from the budget managers of the White House to the Ministry of Health and Social Services, presented an overview of the administration’s plans to reduce the federal discretionary healthcare agencies and to rework like the image of President Donald Trump and the mandate of the HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, The mandate of the mandate “Make America Healthy Sain”.
The document, dated April 10, could still be finalized with modifications. If it is adopted as it could reduce total federal health expenses by tens of billions of dollars per year. He would also consolidate dozens of health programs and departments in administration for a healthy America (AHA), a new entity unveiled by Kennedy during mass layoffs Earlier this month.
The plan requires steep reductions in centers for disease control and prevention, which would see its budget reduced by more than 40% within the framework of the administration proposal.
It also eliminates the CDC World Health Center and programs focused on the prevention of chronic diseases and the prevention of HIV / AIDS. While some of the agency’s work is transferred to new AHA centers, armed violence programs, injury prevention, prevention of violence for young people, drowning, minority health and others are entirely eliminated.
Many staff members of these CDC departments were dismissed in mass reduction advertisements on April 1.
The proposal would also eliminate a number of rural health programs at HHS, including subsidies and residence programs for rural hospitals and state offices. Other rural health efforts, such as black pulmonary clinics, would remain, but be accommodated in the new AHA primary care department.
The proposed cuts could provide a plan of the Republicans who seek to reduce federal spending. The President will send his budgetary request to the Congress, which is disputed on the republican levels for Reduce the federal budget up to 1.5 dollars.
The Washington Post first reported the proposed budget request.
The preliminary plan would reduce the budget of the National Institutes of Health by more than 40% and reduced its 27 research institutes and a hundred of the centers only eight.
While the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of Aging would be preserved. Institutes in search of infantile diseases, mental health, chronic diseases, disabilities and drug addiction would be mixed with five new entities: the National Institute on Body Systems, National Institute on Neuroscience and Brain Research, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the National Institute of Disability Research and National Institute of Behavior Health.
The budget also assumes that the previous attempt of the administration to cap indirect payments to universities at 15%, blocked by a court, would be in force. Many of these payments have traditionally contributed to finance medical research.
Although the NIH has historically appreciated the bipartite support for funding increases, there have been growing calls among the GOP legislators to the reform. The Republican leaders of the Chamber proposed last year to consolidate the institutes in 15 entities, but also suggested a slight increase in the budget in this plan.
The proposal would also establish a salary ceiling for employees hired under title 42, a provision of the National Institutes of Health which gives the agency more latitude to hire experts in higher roles. Many senior officials, including the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious, the director of infectious diseases Anthony Fauci, are hired as title employees 42.
This story has been updated with additional reports.