STAT+: Trump proposes billions in cuts to federal health agencies from NIH to CDC
Trump proposed massive cuts to federal health agencies in his 2026 'skinny budget' request.
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday proposed massive cuts to the federal government’s health agencies in his 2026 budget request, arguing that Congress should reduce spending by tens of billions from current levels.
The request would be a 26% cut to the Department of Health and Human Services’ discretionary budget, which doesn’t include spending on health coverage programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
The administration justified proposed cuts across HHS by saying programs are duplicative, overly ideological, or better left to the states — despite many of them being supported in the first Trump administration and many previous Republican administrations.
