“… At this time, the Administration is requesting additional fiscal year (FY) 2020 funding in the amount of $45.8 billion and the necessary authorities to address ongoing preparedness and response efforts. The details of this funding are included as an attachment to this letter. As the need for this funding arises from unforeseen and unanticipated events, the Administration believes it is appropriate that the amounts proposed be provided and designated as emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (BBEDCA) …”
“In addition to the emergency supplemental resources requested in this letter, the Administration also seeks to amend its FY 2021 Budget request for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). This FY 2021 Budget amendment increases funding for CDC to ensure that the Agency has the resources beginning October 1, 2020, to continue its critical public health mission. This amendment requests a total FY 2021 funding level of $8,329,102,000 for CDC, which is $1,328,196,000 above the FY 2021 Budget request. The additional funding will support priority CDC activities such as Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Global Health, Public Health Preparedness and Response, and the Infectious Diseases Rapid Response Reserve Fund, among other activities. The additional funding is also for the proposed America’s Health Block Grant to allow States and localities to address their most pressing non-infectious disease issues. The Budget amendment would also increase funding for NIAID to ensure it has the resources beginning October 1, 2020, to continue critical basic and applied research on coronaviruses and other infectious diseases. NIAID is NIH’s leading institute on infectious disease research and is at the forefront of the Federal Government’s pursuit of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. This FY 2021 Budget amendment would increase the NIAID total funding level within the NIH to $5,885,470,000, which is $439,584,000 above the FY 2021 Budget request. Further, as a matter of comity, this FY 2020 supplemental request includes, without change, three requests from the Judiciary totaling $7.5 million…” Read the full request here.
Source: OEP OMB Presidential Request – March 17, 2020. POLITICO.
