The National Cancer Institute has terminated funds nationwide for research to fight the disease, expand care, and train new ...

"There were policies that were to encourage people to drop their merit-based civil service protections or not advance them," ...

President Donald Trump signed a comprehensive budget reconciliation bill into law, loosening rules around health savings ...

"All these questions come into play when considering if Congress is to accept the president’s budget as it is, what the next ...

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his reorganization of the agency and the proposed fiscal 2026 budget that cuts funding by 25% during a ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health for a hearing to testify on the HHS fiscal year 2026 budget ...

HHS Proposes Eliminating NIOSH in FY 2026 Budget Overhaul A proposed HHS reorganization would dissolve NIOSH, merging its worker safety programs into the new Administration for a Healthy America.

The budget proposal compliments the CDC’s work during fiscal year 2024 to train laboratory personnel and use laboratory testing, but does not mention how much of that budget will be cut for 2026.

The FY 2026 budget request eliminates the CDC's Global Health Center, and instead allocates $239 million toward global health protection, under the CDC's broader "CDC-Wide Activities" budget line.

Trump's 2026 spending plan serves as a starting point for negotiations with lawmakers and will likely change as the GOP-controlled Congress mulls it.

HHS released the FY 2026 Budget in Brief (BIB) and select agency/division congressional justifications (CJs) on May 30 (and one more CJ on June 3).