Two influential House panels questioned the administration’s top health official Wednesday during hearings on the White House’s fiscal 2025 budget proposal for the Health and Human Services Department, even as Congress races to avoid a partial government shutdown involving this year’s HHS funding.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra fielded questions on an array of pet policies tucked into the $130.7 billion fiscal 2025 discretionary spending request for HHS — which includes Food and Drug Administration funding — during back-to-back hearings before the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee and the Ways and Means Committee.
Here are five policies to watch from Becerra’s trip to Capitol Hill:
