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The Global Health Budget Summaries provide key information about U.S. funding levels for global health in the federal budget and appropriations process. Explore the summaries by fiscal year below.
Congress passes Full-Year Continuing Resolution Bill, maintaining global health funding at prior year levels (Mar 18, 2025)
Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2025 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPs) Appropriations Bill (Aug 5, 2024)
House Appropriations Committee Approves the FY 2025 State and Foreign Operations (SFOPs) Appropriations Bill (Jun 12, 2024)
Global Health Funding in the FY 2025 President’s Budget Request (Mar 12, 2024)
Global Health Funding in the FY 2024 Final Appropriations Bill (Mar 22, 2024)
Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2024 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPs) Appropriations Bill (Jul 21, 2023)
House Approves the FY 2024 State and Foreign Operations (SFOPs) Appropriations Bill (Sep 28, 2023)
Global Health Funding in the FY 2024 President’s Budget Request (Mar 10, 2023)
Global Health Funding in the FY 2021 Omnibus (Jan 8, 2021)
House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2021 Health and Human Services (HHS) Appropriations Bill (Jul 14, 2020)
House Appropriations Committee Approves FY21 State and Foreign Operations (SFOPs) Appropriations Bill (Jul 9, 2020)
White House Releases FY21 Budget Request (Feb 11, 2020)
Global Health Funding in the FY 2020 Conference Agreement (Dec 19, 2019)
Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2020 State and Foreign Operations (SFOPs) Appropriations Bill (Sep 27, 2019)
Senate Appropriations Committee Releases Draft FY 2020 Health and Human Services (HHS) Appropriations Bill (Sep 20, 2019)
House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2020 State & Foreign Operations (SFOPs) Appropriations Bill (May 17, 2019)
House Appropriations Committee Approves FY 2020 Health and Human Services (HHS) Appropriations Bill (May 13, 2019)
White House Releases FY20 Budget Request (Mar 19, 2019)
The House Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2021 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill (and accompanying report) on July 13, 2020.
UPDATED: The House Committee on Appropriations approved the FY 2021 State & Foreign Operations (SFOPs) appropriations bill (and accompanying report) on July 9, 2020 (a draft version of the bill was released on July 6 and the accompanying report was released on July 8).
The White House released its FY 2021 budget request to Congress on February 10, 2020, which includes significant cuts to global health programs compared to the FY 2020 enacted levels. In addition, in some cases, these cuts are steeper than those proposed by the Administration in last year’s request.
The FY 2020 appropriations conference agreement, released by Congress on December 16, 2019 and passed by both the House (12/17) and the Senate (12/19), includes funding for
UPDATED: The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2020 State & Foreign Operations (SFOPs) appropriations bill (and accompanying report) on September 26, 2018 (a draft version of the bill and report were released on September 18, 2019).
The Senate Appropriations Committee released the draft FY 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill (and accompanying report) on September 18, 2019. The LHHS appropriations bill includes funding for U.S. global health programs provided to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
On June 19, 2019, the House passed a package of FY 2020 appropriations bills (minibus), which included global health funding for the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The House Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2020 State & Foreign Operations (SFOPs) appropriations bill (and accompanying report) on May 16, 2019. The SFOPs bill includes funding for U.S. global health programs at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The House Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill (and accompanying report) on May 8, 2019. The LHHS appropriations bill, which provides funding for U.S. global health programs, includes funding at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The White House released its FY 2020 budget request to Congress on March 11, 2019, which includes significant cuts to global health programs compared to FY 2019 enacted levels (the overall levels in the request are similar to the FY 2019 budget request).
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