Proposed House Budget Offers FDA No New Funding

The House’s fiscal 2025 Agriculture-FDA bill, released Monday, keeps spending almost flat, providing the FDA with $6.75 billion in total funding, short of the agency’s $7.2 billion budget request.

Republicans pointed out that the proposed budget doesn’t provide funds for new programs requested by the Biden administration, nor does it include funding for inflation-related pay increases, which they say will “save taxpayers $281 million.”

But Democrats on the committee say the funding level will cause the FDA to have to cut its core programs to fund pay raises.

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