Overview

• An internal budget document reveals the Trump administration's plan to cut one-third of discretionary spending at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
• The National Institutes of Health (NIH) faces a 40% budget reduction, consolidating its 27 institutes into 8 and eliminating several research programs.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would see a 44% budget cut, with chronic disease prevention and domestic HIV programs eliminated.
• A new $20 billion agency, the Administration for a Healthy America, would centralize various health programs under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Programs like Head Start and rural health initiatives would be eliminated, with significant impacts on vulnerable populations, though congressional approval of the cuts remains uncertain.