On July 10, the House Appropriations Subcommittee approved its Labor, Health and Human Services, Education (L-HHS-E) Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 legislation. It includes $107 billion for HHS, which is $8.5 billion below the FY 2024 enacted level, including:
- National Institutes of Health (NIH), a total of $48 billion for NIH, level funding from FY 2024, including:
- Proposes the largest restructuring of the NIH, consolidating 27 centers into 15. This includes merging the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) and National Eye Institute (NEI) into the new National Institute on Neuroscience and Brain Research and providing $4.1 billion in funding.
- $7.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Defunded programs include:
- Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
- Alzheimer’s Disease Program
- Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) – The bill includes $3.6 billion for ASPR, a decrease of $4 million below the FY 2024 level and $137 million below the FY 2025 request.
- Increases by $3 million the Traumatic Brain Injury Program from FY 2024 to $16 million for FY 2025.
- Reduces funding for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by $1.8 billion to $7.4 billion.
Following the release of the L-HHS-E FY 2025 Appropriations bill, the AANS and the CNS sent a letter to Reps. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) urging Congress to increase NIH funding and express concerns with the NIH restructure proposal.
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