“The president’s FY 2019 Budget Request along with the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA), provides $95.4B in base discretionary budget authority to HHS, a 10% increase over FY 2017.”
“The president released his $1.3T discretionary budget request for FY 2019 in February 2018, which gives insight into administrative and agency priorities for the next fiscal year. An amendment to the budget request includes the additional $152B in discretionary funding from the BBA. The budget request emphasizes priorities such as national defense and force readiness, public safety, veteran care, addressing the opioid epidemic and border security.”
“Due to the BBA, HHS shows an increase in funding over both FY 2017 and FY 2018 levels.”
“The original president’s budget request greatly decreased HHS funding, however the BBA which was signed into law in December 2017, restored much of the funding, shifted some funds…” Read the full article here.
Source: Observations from HHS’ FY 2019 Budget Request – By Angie Petty, April 3, 2018. Deltek.
