Last week, the House passed a measure to fund departments including HHS through September 30.

The main point: The bills rejected many of the steep funding cuts that the Trump administration sought in the White House budget request earlier this year.

The details:

HHS: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would be funded at nearly $117 billion, a $210 million increase. The President’s budget request had sought $95 billion for HHS.
SAMHSA: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) would receive $7.4 billion, keeping funding at a level similar to previous years and rejecting proposed cuts. That would include level funding for substance use prevention and treatment, State Opioid Response grants, and the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services Block Grant.
CDC: The bill includes more than $9 billion in program-level funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That would keep funding around its current level and reject the administration’s proposal to slash the CDC budget by half. It includes funding for several CDC centers that the administration’s budget request did not, including the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. That would include level funding for tobacco prevention and control and for injury prevention and control. It would direct CDC to fund opioid overdose prevention awards to state, local, and tribal health departments at no less than the percentage of overall funding provided for the program in 2024.
NIH: The bill keeps National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding about flat, rather than cutting it by 40% as proposed by the administration. It also would retain all 27 NIH centers and institutes, rejecting the administration’s proposal to eliminate four and consolidate the rest of NIH into eight institutes. It also blocks an administration plan to dole out multi-year NIH grants upfront rather than over the life of the grant and does not include the cap on how much NIH will pay to cover administrative costs.
AHA: The $20 billion requested by the administration for the new Administration for a Healthy America (AHA) is not included in the bill.

Next steps: The Senate was expected to vote on the bills this week.

Congress has until January 30 to pass the funding bills to avoid another government shutdown.
But: Calls from some senators to reject or change the funding for the Department of Homeland Security may hold up the whole funding package.