WASHINGTON — After more than a 20-year hiatus the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would receive funding for firearm injury and mortality prevention research under a budget plan supported by a House Appropriations subcommittee led by Representative Rosa DeLauro.
The research money is included in an appropriations bill that would provide $189.8 billion in discretionary funding in the next fiscal year to the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education that DeLauro’s subcommittee is considering this afternoon starting at 4 p.m.
The $189.8 billion spending proposal for 2020 represents an $11.7 billion increase over current funding and $47.8 billion more than President Donald Trump requested in his 2020 budget. DeLauro has called Trump’s proposal “cruel” and “reckless,” saying it would do irreparable damage to critical social safety net programs such as Social Security and Early Head Start.
The bill includes $25 million for the CDC and $25 million for the National Institutes of Health to fund firearm injury and mortality prevention research. It’s been more than two decades since Congress included specific funding for the CDC to conduct such research.
Republicans last month said they were wary of providing new money for gun research, claiming Democrats are trying to score political points because the CDC already has the authority to study gun violence. However, the CDC, which collects data on gun violence injuries, said it’s limited in what it can do without more money. A 2018 budget deal clarified that the federal government can study gun violence, as long as it doesn’t use the research to promote gun control, according to Politico.
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