Below is the opening 2025 budget salvo from the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations subcommittee. This bill is scheduled for mark-up tomorrow. The numbers are clipped from an email I received from the Association of Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). ASTHO notes that the numbers are considered “low-water marks” (I would say elimination means no water) and are “indications of the priorities of the majority in the House (emphasis mine).” The House GOP clearly has it out for the CDC. I don’t expect these numbers to be final, but if budgets are moral documents, and I believe they are, this is just another example of House Republicans having no morals. If you keep up with what is happening in terms of mortality and morbidity trends in this country, this is not comforting.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): The bill includes $7.4 billion for CDC, a decrease of $1.8 billion below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for Firearm Injury and Mortality Prevention Research, a decrease of $12.5 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for Opioid Overdose Prevention and Surveillance, a decrease of $506 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for Rape Prevention, a decrease of $62 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for Suicide Prevention, a decrease of $30 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for Tobacco Prevention and Control, a decrease of $247 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative, a decrease of $220 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for the Climate and Health program, a decrease of $10 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for the Center for Forecasting and Analytics, a decrease of $55 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant, a decrease of $160 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill includes $564 million for Global Health, a decrease of $129 million below the FY24 enacted level.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): The bill includes $7.4 billion for HRSA, a decrease of $647 million below the enacted FY24 level. (The comparison does not include Community Project Funding, which was. Still, if included in the FY24 enacted bill.) (My comment: not sure what the statement in parentheses means).
- The bill eliminates funding for Title X Family Planning, a decrease of $286 million below the FY24 enacted level. (My comment: Title X funding cannot be used for abortions)
- The bill includes $1.9 billion for the Health Centers program, equal to the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill includes $1.3 billion for Health Workforce training, a decrease of $62 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill includes $1.02 billion for Maternal and Child Health programs, a decrease of $152 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill eliminates funding for the Healthy Start program, a decrease of $145 million below the FY24 enacted level.
- The bill includes $2.38 billion for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, a decrease of $190 million below the FY24 enacted level.