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Witnesses tell House appropriations panel abrupt cuts to CDC, NIH and state funding risk public-health services
Summary
Health officials, epidemiologists and researchers told the House Appropriations Subcommittee that recent reorganizations and the unexpected cancellation of appropriated funds threaten disease surveillance, outbreak response and ongoing research, and urged Congress to restore and sustain funding for core CDC programs and data modernization.
Members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education heard multiple witnesses warn that recent federal reorganizations and abrupt cancellations of appropriated funds are disrupting public-health operations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and state and local health departments.
The witnesses said the disruptions — described as sudden firing of staff, cancelled multi‑year contracts and an $11 billion cut to supplemental funding already allocated to states — are hampering disease surveillance, outbreak response and long‑running research programs. "We are not in the business of wholesale firing and dismantling the very foundations of our public health system," Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D‑Conn.) told the…
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