Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it will be cutting more than 10,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring that will impact operations at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), among other critical agencies.

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Dr. Marty Makary as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, as the new director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Today, the U.S. House passed The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025. It contains no increases for federal cancer research or prevention funding and significant cuts to Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), in which cancer is the largest recipient of funds.