Health departments around the country have noticed there’s something strange happening with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: It’s not showing up on schedule and there’s been no communication about why.
The federal public health agency doles out most of the money it receives from Congress to state and local health departments, which then contract with local organizations. That’s how public health work gets funded in the U.S.
According to two CDC staff members with knowledge of the agency’s budget, the CDC has yet to receive its full funding for the 2025 fiscal year. NPR agreed not to name the staff members because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
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“If they can delay until the end of September, then that’s it,” the staffer adds. “Those projects are not going to happen. That money goes straight back to Treasury.”
That’s why both CDC staffers who spoke with NPR say this amounts to impounding the agency’s funding.
We are in the endgame of dismantling science and education now.
That money goes straight back to Treasury.
There it is. “Why are they doing this?” Right there.
