$2 billion in mental health funding cut
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The Trump administration has cut nearly 2 billion dollars in funding for programs that serve people with mental illness and substance abuse issues. Providers say the cuts are devastating.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics. U.S.
Five programs at the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health have been decimated amid an estimated $2 billion in federal cuts to mental health and drug addiction services.
For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled.
Today, President Donald J. Trump celebrated the largest ever investment in rural healthcare, enacted in his signature Working Families Tax Cuts Act. PROVIDING UNPRECEDENTED FUNDING LEVELS FOR RURAL HEALTHCARE: The President believes that access to quality care should not be determined by your zip code.