On April 3, 3036, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Trump administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2027. It proposes cutting funding for the National Institutes of Health by $5 billion and for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality by $120 million. According to OMB, “the budget requests $111.1 billion in discretionary budget authority for HHS for 2027, a $15.8 billion or 12.5% decrease from the 2026 enacted level.”
The proposal also includes another attempt by the Trump administration to overhaul NIH by consolidating several existing Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies into a new subagency, the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA). This same reorganization was part of the FY2026 budget proposal, which Congress ultimately rejected.