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Diving brief:
- Friday, the White House published a budget of 2026 which includes abrupt reductions in health care programs, in particular those hosted in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, continuing the Trump administration against biomedical research and public health financing.
- Cups are necessary to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in HHS agencies, many of which have supported programs opposed to the president, such as the search for affirmative sex for transgender people or the publication of information on climate change, White House officials said in the budgetary document.
- The president’s budget is a list of wishes and does not bear weight, although the congress often takes into account the plan during the allocation of financing for the coming year.
Diving insight:
The 40 -page request sent to the congress by Office of Management and the director of the Russell Vought budget includes a reduction of 23% of the government’s discretionary financing and an increase of 13% of military spending overall.
If it is adopted, HHS would have its discretionary funding reduced by 26%.
The budget includes the partisan language on many programs currently sponsored by Washington. For example, the budget slams the NIH, the first donor of biomedical research in the world, as “too large and not focused” and accuses the agency of promoting “the radical ideology of the sexes” and “unnecessary expenses, misleading information, risky research … which undermines public health”.
Under the budget, the NIH would lose nearly $ 18 billion – the greatest reduction offered for an HHS division in the plan. The NIH would also reorganize its variety of programs in five specific areas: the National Institute on Body Systems Research; National institute on neuroscience and brain research; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Research linked to the National Institute of Handicaps; and National Institute on Behavioral Health.
The funding of the National Institute on Disparities and Centers of Minority and Health focused on nursing, global health and alternative medicines would be fully eliminated.
Meanwhile, the CDC would lose $ 3.6 billion. The programs that are “duplicate”, “dei” or “simply useless” would be eliminated, including the National Center for Chronic Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion, the National Center for Environmental Health and the National Center for Buthury Prevention and Control.
The CDC public health preparation programs would also be closed because they “can be carried out more effectively by states”, depending on the budget.
As for the other HHS agencies, health Resources and Services Administration, which strives to improve health care for poorly served populations, would lose $ 1.7 billion, while the administration of drug addiction and mental health services, which focuses on improving mental health disorders and the fight against substance consumption, would lose a billion dollars.
The CMS, which oversees health insurance programs for around 150 million Americans, would lose nearly $ 700 million, focused on fields such as health equity and awareness and education of beneficiaries.
“This reduction will have no impact on the provision of advantages to the beneficiaries of Medicare and Medicaid,” says the budget.
The low -income energy assistance program of the HHS, which helps American families to pay for their heating and cooling bills, would be fully closed.
The only increase in HHS financing in the budget would be for “Maha” or “Make America Healthy in Again”, initiatives such as promotion of nutrition and exercise, a key objective of the HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. such programs would receive $ 500 million next year.
The plan constitutes an attack on science and research, in particular after The Trump administration dismissed thousands of Federal health workers earlier this springsaid medical and patient defense groups.
“This budgetary proposal advances the relentless effort of the Trump administration to decentralize and weaken our public health and health infrastructure, in transfer of the costs of costs to states which are already confronted with significant budgetary deficits, very caused by the director of consumption of this administration, non-improvisable families of health of health for consultation companies.
“Although the financing of certain crucial activities, such as emerging monitoring of infectious diseases, is maintained, almost all areas of health are likely to be affected by such massive reductions in fundamental infrastructure,” said the Society for Infectious Diseases in America.
The best Democrats have also reduced against the proposal, arguing the funding for research on health care will cost people’s lives and will put America back on the country’s scene.
“Chinese President Xi Jinping is undoubtedly delighted with Trump’s proposal to halve our investments in scientific and biomedical research,” Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., In a statement on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Republican leaders of the Congress said that the budget would improve the government’s budgetary discipline, with representative Mike Johnson, R-La., The president of the Chamber, claiming that the plan “guarantees that each federal dollar as a taxpayer spent is used to serve the American people, not an inflated bureaucracy or a partisan project for pets” in a statement.
Trump’s budget comes as The Congress remains mired in the work on the development of a bill Including the various fiscal and border priorities of the president, as well as strong reductions in government financing in other areas. In health care, Medicaid in particular is on the Cup block, after the Energy and Trade Committee, which oversees the security insurance program, was responsible for finding $ 880 billion in savings.
However, the popularity of Medicaid among voters, including in republican districts, complicates discussions on the reform of programs that could reduce advantages or inscriptions. Logjam recently led GOP leaders to Push energy and trade markup From the return bill for another week until May 12, according to Politico.