The Trump Government Is planning to create cost-saving cuts by combining two similar HIV/AIDS prevention programs that are run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an administration officer told FOX News Digital on Wednesday. The cutbacks relate to administrative costs and dei-related expenses.
The provisional proposal, which is still ‘a concept of a plan’, is to merge them into one program under HRSA to streamline efficiency – in accordance with the reduction of the administration of federal government Agenda – Because having two separate programs that do similar functions, it is not logical, the civil servant said.
“One of those things is still very provisional, but of course you don’t need two $ 1 billion budgets, with $ 1 billion goes to The CDC And $ 1 billion goes to HRSA, “said the official.” Part of it will go to paying the administrative overhead costs and things like that. ”
Both the CDC and the HRSA are part of the Ministry of Health and Human Services, under the supervision of secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Trump administration is planning to consolidate two HIV programs in one and to manage them through the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency that reports to HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Getty Images)
“If this continues, that will be more final … as when investigating dei spending with these two programs,” said the civil servant. The Trump government has already moved to reduce the federal financing of dei programs and initiatives in one of its early Executive Actions Entitled “Termination of radical and wasteful government -thei programs and preference.”
Although the CDC has a department that focuses on the prevention of HIV and other infectious diseases, HRSA also has a program called the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program (RWHAP), which offers medical care for people with a low income with HIV.
During his first term, in 2019, Trump launched the The end of HIV -epidemic initiative, With the aim of reducing cases of HIV by 75% by 2025 and with 90% by 2030. The initiative is managed by the CDC.
The Healthcare and Human Services building in Washington on July 13, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The proposal, which is still being worked on this week, comes in the midst of large government shaking in various federal sectors in the direction of Trump and the Elon Musk-Run Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), with thousands of employees in Massa Disgunments in recent weeks.
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