President Trump used his budget plan on Friday to move forward with his assault on the Public Research and Biomedical Research Company of the Nation, proposing draconian cuts to the National Health Institutes and the centers warn this in the control of diseases and information prior to the information of human health, well -being and longevity.
In hard numbers and scathing words, the budget eliminates a series of programs, including one that helps low -income people living in cold climates to pay heating invoices. Eliminates CDC programs dedicated to preventing chronic diseases and injuries, including armed violence injuries, dismissing those “duplicate” and “unnecessary” programs.
Call NIH, the world’s biomedical research agency, “too big and unfocused.” The document argues that the institutes have “broken the confidence of the American people”, while accusing the agency to finance the investigation that led to the pandemic of the Coronavirus. He says that the Medicare and Medicaid service centers, the federal agency that provides medical attention to more than 160 million Americans, has carried out “waste and awakened activities.”
In a sense, the plan is not surprising; The Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has already announced that he is reducing the Federal Department of Human Health and Services, which supervises the NIH and the CDC, for 20,000 people. The Plan proposes $ 500 million for the Make America Again initiative in Kennedy’s Make America.
However, the budget proposal points to some initiatives that Mr. Kennedy seems to favor. Eliminates the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, which focuses on alternative therapies. And Mr. Kennedy often says that Hey wants to improve the health of the Native Americans, many of whom trust the heating program in the home that Mr. Trump wants to reduce.
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The proposed budget is just a plan, a declaration of Trump’s priorities. Now he will go to Congress, where he already faces obstacles.
Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and the president of the Assignment Committee, said Friday that he had “serious objections” to cut the heating program at home, which helps many of its voters survive Biomed Wintersch.
Trump also proposes to close the National Institute of Minority and Health Shoes, a NIH branch dedicated to studying ways to improve the health of minorities, including American natives, often suffer more.
The budget said the institute was “full of expenses ofi”, a reference to the initiatives of diversity, equity and inclusion, which the president has moved systematic to dismantle within the government.
“Eliminating these efforts would reverse decades of progress,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who directed the CDC under President Barack Obama. “You don’t improve things by destroying them. Improvements.”
The budget plan does not talk about food and medicines administration. Dr. David A. Kessler, who directed the FDA under republican and democratic administrations, has argued that deep cuts for the financing of biomedical research will put the United States in a competitive disadvantage with China.
At a recent audience about Capitol Hill, legislators remembered the legislators of the Cold War era, when the federal government increased its investment in investigation after the Soviet Union became the first nation to launch a space satellite.
“Whatever you need to be fixed, let’s solve it, but we need to make a marked increase in our investment,” Dr. Go. Said Kessler. “This is Sputnik 2.0, but with China.
While chronic diseases and injuries are now the main causes of death in the United States, the scope of CDC would narrow and return to their original mission to protect Americans against infectious diseases. The agency’s budget would be reduced almost halfway; I would lose $ 3.5 billion in funds, leaving it with “more than $ 4 billion,” said the proposal.
Mary Woolley, the executive director of The Research America, a defense group that promotes biomedical research, said the effects of Mr. Trump’s proposal would be felt in the long term by decelerating studies that could lead to treatments for a variety of diseases, including childhood cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and chronic disease disease.
But she also said that they would be short -term effects. Patients are already losing access to experimental medications because clinical trials have a bone closure as a result or recent budget cuts, he said. He was concerned that young researchers conclude that “they have no future in this country and should look elsewhere.” Some are already being recruited by countries, including China, he said, adding: “If you don’t have the next generation, you have nothing.”
Surveys show that most Americans support biomedical research. A survey recently conducted by KFF found that the majority of the public, 61 percent, opposed the main cuts to staff and spending on federal health agencies. There were marked differences in the lines, with 9 out of 10 Democrats that oppose the cuts, and 72 percent of the Republicans support them.
Mrs. Woolley ceded a recent report by United for Medical Research, a coalition of patients, defense groups, medical institutions of the industry and industry, which found that the research financed by NIH is an economic engine, which returns $ 2.56 per $ 1 invested.
The budget also proposes to cut more than $ 1 billion of the administration of substance and mental health services, which direct funds and support throughout the country to address two of the largest public health crises in the country.
While Mr. Kennedy, a heroin addicted in recovery, has said that he is particularly concerned by the opioid epidemic, the budget is worried against the public health strategy known as “damage reduction”, which was backed by the administration driving and implies reducing the risk of deaths and overdose by guaranteeing that people who use illegal substances can do so with certainty.
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The heating program, called Energy for the Energy for the Income Home, was labeled as “unnecessary.” The document justified eliminating it by citing Trump’s promises to increase national oil and gas production and reduce energy prices.
The government’s responsibility office has raised integrity conerns meanings related to fraud and abuse in the program, but currently helps 6.2 million Americans from Texas to Maine to compensate for their high public service invoices. Last month, the Administration dismissed all those who worked in the office that manages the program.
Jan Hoffman and Brad Plumer Contributed reports.
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