The Low-Income Housing Energy Assistance Program is one of the programs that cut budgets.
President Donald Trump is asking Congress to approve budgets that eliminate or reduce several health programs.
The president wants to eliminate more than a dozen programs, including low-income housing energy assistance programs, kindergarten development grants, preventive health and human services block grants, and sexual risk aversion programs.
The preschool development grant, funded preschool managers and partially managed by the HHS, has been weaponized by previous administrations to “expand federal reach and push DEI policies to young children,” the White House said, referring to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Preventive Health and Human Services are funded by the state itself, which is more appropriately funded, according to the White House.
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He also said that the Sexual Risk Aversion Program overlaps another program managed by the HHS.
In addition to cutting the program, Trump is trying to eliminate several CDC and National Institutes of Health (NIH) offices.
The White House calls for the lack of funding at the National Institute on Minorities and Health Disparities, the Fogerty International Center, the National Center for Complementary Integrated Health and the National Institute of Nursing Research.
Officials said the NIH “breaked American trust with promoting wasted spending, misleading information, dangerous research and dangerous ideologies that undermine public health.”
The budget would cost $27 billion for the NIH research.
At the CDC, the budget eliminates four centres. Among them is the National Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Center. The office is “duplicate, day, or simply unnecessary,” the White House said. The budget maintains over $4 billion for the CDC.
The NIH and CDC did not respond to requests for comment.
Some lawmakers criticized Trump’s proposed cuts to health programs.
