{"id":24758,"date":"2025-03-26T19:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24758"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:26:59","slug":"trump-administration-abruptly-cuts-billions-from-state-health-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24758","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services"},"content":{"rendered":"
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States were told Monday that they could no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues.<\/p>\n

The cuts are likely to further hamstring state health departments, which are already underfunded<\/a> and struggling with<\/a> competing demands from chronic diseases, resurgent infections like syphilis and emerging threats like bird flu.<\/p>\n

State health departments began receiving notices on Monday evening that the funds, which were allocated during the Covid-19 pandemic, were being terminated, effective immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo additional activities can be conducted, and no additional costs may be incurred, as it relates to these funds,\u201d the notices said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For some, the effect was immediate.<\/p>\n

In Lubbock, Texas, public health officials have received orders to stop work supported by three grants that helped fund the response to the widening measles outbreak there, according to Katherine Wells, the city\u2019s <\/strong>director of public health.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, some state health departments were preparing to lay off dozens of epidemiologists and data scientists. Others, including Texas, Maine and Rhode Island, were still scrambling to understand the impact of the cuts before taking any action.<\/p>\n

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States were told Monday that they could no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues.The cuts are likely to further hamstring state health departments, which are already underfunded and struggling with competing demands from chronic diseases, resurgent infections like syphilis and emerging threats like bird flu.State health departments began receiving notices on Monday evening that the funds, which were allocated during the Covid-19 pandemic, were being terminated, effective immediately.\u201cNo additional activities can be conducted, and no additional costs may be incurred, as it relates to these funds,\u201d the notices said.For some, the effect was immediate.In Lubbock, Texas, public health officials have received orders to stop work supported by three grants that helped fund the response to the widening measles outbreak there, according to Katherine Wells, the city\u2019s director of public health.On Tuesday, some state health departments were preparing to lay off dozens of epidemiologists and data scientists. Others, including Texas, Maine and Rhode Island, were still scrambling to understand the impact of the cuts before taking any action.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24760,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24761,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24758\/revisions\/24761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}