Bipartisan HHS Budget Bill Rejects Trump-Proposed NIH, CDC Funding Cuts, With No Mention Of RFK Jr.’s AHA

By Sigi Ris / July 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM

In the first Republican rebuke of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s massive health department overhaul, Senate appropriators from both parties voted Thursday (July 31) to restore the Trump administration’s 40% cut to National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and conspicuously left out of the HHS spending bill Kennedy’s proposed Administration for a Healthy America (AHA), the pinnacle of his Make America Healthy Again agenda.


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