The annual budget of the HHS is $1.8 trillion. Yes, $1.8 trillion.

The Trump Administration may reduce roughly one-third of the federal government’s enormous health budget according to a leaked White House proposal. The plan was first reported by the Washington Post and it details in documents acquired by CNN the cutting of “tens of billions of dollars” a year by reducing funding for programs deemed wasteful or yielding poor results.

The proposal, which has been sent to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is aligned with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” initiative and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”).

The proposal would remove billions in annual spending and pull in an enormous bureaucracy that employs 82,000 workers across 10 regional offices, with average salaries of $100,000 plus generous benefits.

CNN’s report said:

“The plan calls for steep cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which would see its budget reduced by more than 40% under the administration’s proposal. It also eliminates CDC’s global health center and programs focused on chronic disease prevention, and domestic HIV/AIDS prevention. While some of the agency’s work would be moved into new AHA centers, programs on gun violence, injury prevention, youth violence prevention, drowning, minority health and others would be eliminated entirely.” The preliminary plan would slash the National Institutes of Health’s budget by more than 40% and reduce its 27 research institutes and centers down to just eight. This month, HHS launched its initial wave of layoffs, with 10,000 employees slated for termination in the coming weeks.”

“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago. HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address our chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again,” the agency said in a statement at the time of the first cuts.

HHA was implicated in funding controversial gain-of-function research through EcoHealth Alliance through Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIAID. These efforts, tied to the Wuhan Level 4 Virology Lab in China, where Covid-19 was likely launched from, produced human-transmissible coronaviruses. 

How ironic that the citizens of the USA and the world may be more healthy by reducing the budget of this very suspect government body.