Every year, the administration releases the president’s budget, which requests funding from Congress for the upcoming fiscal year (FY). The president’s budget is a nonbinding document and funding levels reflected in appropriations bills do not always align with funding levels in the president’s budget request. However, the president’s budget has traditionally been an opportunity for the administration to lay out its priorities and state publicly what programs and activities it wants to invest in, and which it wants to cut. Thus, it can be viewed as a guide map to how the administration wants departments, like the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to be structured and funded.
On May 30, 2025, HHS released additional information related to the FY 2026 president’s budget: the FY 2026 Budget in Brief and select agency/division congressional justifications. These additional documents, which follow the “skinny budget” that was released in the beginning of May, provide more details about HHS’s funding requests and how the Trump administration plans to restructure the department. Read on to learn more about these proposed budget levels and structural changes.
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Kayla Holgash, Marie Knoll, and Erica Stocker contributed to this article