{"id":27082,"date":"2025-05-02T21:32:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27082"},"modified":"2025-05-02T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:23:26","slug":"trump-budget-cuts-funding-for-chronic-disease-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27082","title":{"rendered":"Trump Budget Cuts Funding for Chronic Disease Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.<\/p>\n

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation\u2019s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease \u201cepidemic\u201d would be a cornerstone of his Make America Healthy Again agenda, often invoking alarming statistics as an urgent reason for reforming public health in this country.<\/p>\n

On Friday, President Trump released a proposed budget that called for cutting the funding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by almost half. Its chronic disease center was slated for elimination entirely, a proposal that came as a shock to many state and city health officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost Americans have some sort of ailment that could be considered chronic,\u201d said Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, health director for the city of St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Of the proposed cuts, she said, \u201cHow do you reconcile that with trying to make America healthy again?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The federal health department last month cut 2,400 jobs<\/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion runs on the largest budget within the agency.<\/p>\n

Programs on lead poisoning, smoking cessation and reproductive health were jettisoned in a reorganization last month.<\/p>\n

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Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation\u2019s health secretary, has said that tackling a chronic disease \u201cepidemic\u201d would be a cornerstone of his Make America Healthy Again agenda, often invoking alarming statistics as an urgent reason for reforming public health in this country.On Friday, President Trump released a proposed budget that called for cutting the funding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by almost half. Its chronic disease center was slated for elimination entirely, a proposal that came as a shock to many state and city health officials.\u201cMost Americans have some sort of ailment that could be considered chronic,\u201d said Dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, health director for the city of St. Louis.Of the proposed cuts, she said, \u201cHow do you reconcile that with trying to make America healthy again?\u201dThe federal health department last month cut 2,400 jobs from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion runs on the largest budget within the agency.Programs on lead poisoning, smoking cessation and reproductive health were jettisoned in a reorganization last month.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":27084,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27082","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=27082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27085,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27082\/revisions\/27085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}