Last Friday the White House released the President’s ‘discretionary’ budget proposal for next federal fiscal year. The proposal presents top-level requests for each federal agency and doesn’t include funding tables that are usually part of the executive’s proposal.

Congress can approve, reject, or modify the Administration’s budget recommendations. A complete budget request with additional details such as congressional justifications and mandatory funding proposals is expected to be released by the White House in the coming weeks.

Here are some of the key federal agency proposals:

CDC

  • Decreases CDC’s budget by 48% going from $7.6B to just $4B.
  • Eliminates the:
    • National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
    • National Center for Environmental Health
    • National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
    • Global Health Center
    • Public Health Preparedness and Response
    • Preventive Health and Human Services Block Grant

HRSA

  • The budget decreases HRSA from $7.6B to just $6B. 
  • The budget includes a:
    • $74M decrease in funding for Ryan White HIV/AIDS program activities that do not focus on core health care and support services directly to patients, such as education and training.
    • $274M decrease in funding for MCH.
    • $1B decrease in funding for health workforce programs that provide scholarships and support for individuals to enter “high-paying medical careers.”
    • $286M decrease in funding for Title X Family Planning programs.

ASPR

  • Decreases funding by $240 million for ASPR.
  • Eliminates funding for ASPR’s Hospital Preparedness Program.

Other HHS Programs

  • Eliminates the Sexual Risk Avoidance Program.
  • Eliminates the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program.
  • Reduces funding levels for the HHS Office of Minority Health and Office on Women’s Health. 

For more information view the FY26 budget proposal.

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