Roll Call - The Trump administration on Friday called for cutting discretionary health spending by about 26 percent in fiscal 2026 and slashing medical research, public health and support service programs.
The White House’s “skinny budget” request, released by the Office of Management and Budget, seeks $93.8 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services, or a decrease of about $33 billion over the fiscal 2025 enacted level, according to an OMB budget document.
The request asks Congress to cut funding for several subagencies while calling for new funding for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Administration for a Healthy America. The agency, established earlier this year, would see $500 million to focus on issues related to nutrition, exercise, environmental issues, food and drug safety and “over-reliance” on medication.
The White House proposed decreased spending across other HHS agencies, with the largest funding cuts aimed at the National Institutes of Health. Trump requested almost $18 billion in cuts to the medical research agency, which received about $47 billion in fiscal 2025.
New Republic - As Republicans in Congress struggle to write a massive bill that would slash government spending and extend a bevy of tax cuts from President Donald Trump’s first term, one gargantuan point of contention looms above all others: whether to cut funding for Medicaid—and by how much. One potential avenue for reducing spending on the health care benefit program for low-income Americans that is popular among Republicans is instituting more stringent work requirements for certain recipients. While hardly a novel solution—or an exclusively partisan one—the potential imposition of such barriers has made for an uneasy debate on Capitol Hill.
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