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Biden Administration Releases 2024 Budget Proposal

March 13, 2023

The Biden administration released a discretionary budget request for fiscal year 2024 on March 9. The proposed budget request is unlikely to be adopted by Congress but provides insight into the Administration’s priorities for the year ahead.

The proposal includes $144 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its constituent agencies, which reflects an increase of $14.8 billion over the 2023-enacted level. This proposed funding would support initiatives related to public health preparedness, advancing scientific knowledge and expanding the health workforce, among others, and includes the following spending adjustments:

  • $20 billion in mandatory funding across the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to prepare for and respond to future pandemics and other biological threats.
  • $1 billion for the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop innovative medical countermeasures.
  • $995 million for the Strategic National Stockpile.
  • $400 million in new pandemic preparedness and biodefense funding for ASPR to continuously invest in long-term capabilities to enable a rapid response to emerging biological threats.
  • $10.5 billion in discretionary funding for CDC to prioritize investments in core capabilities, such as data, workforce, laboratory capacity and infrastructure.
  • $1 billion for dedicated Cancer Moonshot activities across CDC, Indian Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and FDA, as well as a total investment of $7.8 billion in the National Cancer Institute.
  • $2.5 billion for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to advance high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research with an initial focus on cancer, diabetes and dementia.
  • $2.7 billion for HRSA to expand workforce capacity across the country, including $28 million for a new program to address growing concerns related to health care workforce shortages.

Additional details are available in the HHS Budget in Brief.