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Good morning. A Trump administration draft budget for HHS was leaked yesterday, and STAT reporters have the details. For NIH, the document proposes a $20 billion cut in 2026 — roughly a 40% reduction — and a sweeping consolidation. The document also outlines how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may cut up HHS to build his planned chronic disease-fighting agency, the Administration for a Healthy America.
