Donald Trump I am the one he really does what he wants. This time, it intends to reduce by $ 40 billion in its budget Ministry of Health, In which he has made deep cuts, Washington Post, citing an internal budget document, revealed yesterday (16.04.2025).
This proposal for budget cuts to the Ministry of Health, which is not yet at a preliminary stage and in any case should be approved by Congress, enrolled in Framework for federal public administration by Donald Trump’s decision, which assigned to Elon Musk, a decision of the federal public administration, which commissioned Elon Musk, The richest man in the world, to handle it.
The $ 40 billion cuts relate to the budget of the Ministry of Health in the financial year 2026, which is responsible for approved by Congress. In the financial year 2024, its budget amounted to $ 121 billion. Consequently, it is planned to be reduced by one third.
The ministry’s broader budget is estimated to reach about 1.8 trillion. dollars, The largest amount is intended for mandatory expenses, mainly linked to public insurance, health care and medicare and Medicaid pharmaceutical coverage programs.
Already, in March, Trump government began large -scale reorganization of the Ministry of Healthremoving almost a quarter of jobs in it.
The abolition of positions has hit various supervisory services, in particular those responsible for the treatment of epidemics or to approve new drugs.
The proposal to the knowledge of the Washington Post predicts that budget cuts and the reorganization of “in -depth” of health and social welfare services, the newspaper said.
They are provided, inter alia, in the context of mergers of various sectors of the service which is responsible for medical research (NIH), to reduced its budget by about $ 47 billion, as well as the abolition of programs aimed at improving access to care in remote areas.