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The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved its FY25 Labor-HHS spending bill, funding HHS at $122.8 billion.
Why it matters: The bipartisan measure, approved on a 25-3 vote, still has to be reconciled with the House's version, which is loaded with controversial riders addressing issues like reproductive health and gender-affirming care.
- Full text of the Senate bill will be available later today.
- Sens. Deb Fischer, Marco Rubio and Bill Hagerty voted no on the bill. Sen. John Hoeven didn't vote.
What's inside: The bill funds the NIH at $50.2 billion, an increase of $2.05 billion over FY24. Some of that amount will go for mental health, Alzheimer's and cancer research.
- The CDC would also get a funding increase of $173 million over FY24 levels, including money for wastewater surveillance, data modernization, cancer prevention and public health infrastructure.
- The bill also maintains Title X funding, which would be eliminated in the House bill, and has additional funding for pandemic preparedness.
The House Labor-HHS draft funds HHS at $107 billion which is a 7% cut from the FY24 enacted level.
This is a developing story. See today's Axios Pro Health Policy for more details.
