Senators who hold the purse strings for health dollars will shield the CDC from major cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would see a nearly $1.3 billion cut to its discretionary funds in fiscal year 2020 to $5.28 billion from $6.56 billion under the Trump administration’s 2020 budget request. It’s part of a White House plan to cull discretionary spending across the board, including $14 billion from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Public health programs at the CDC have historically been more vulnerable to funding reductions compared with biomedical research ...