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# House Budget Bill Includes $185 Million FDA Boost
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/house-budget-bill-includes-185-million-fda-boost/
- Published: 2019-06-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-15T01:35:38.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: FDA Policy/General, #legacy-id-D5144453

The House has passed FDA’s fiscal year 2020 budget as part of [HR 3055](https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/HR3055%20Summary%5F0.pdf?ref=fdaweb.com), a five-bill minibus that covers spending for Agriculture-FDA, Commerce-Justice-Science, Interior-Environment, Military Construction-VA, and Transportation-HUD. Under the measure, FDA would receive a $185 million (6%) increase for FY 20, taking its total budget authority funding to $3.26 billion; with user fee revenue, total funding would reach $5.86 billion.

Within the FDA budget, the House provides target increases for medical product and food safety activities, including new initiatives to revolutionize the safety of the nation’s blood supply and to enable faster responses to foodborne illness outbreaks. “In addition, the bill includes a strong focus on continuing FDA’s efforts to advance generic drug reviews and increase medical product manufacturing in the U.S.," a House statement says. The bill also appropriates $75 million to accelerate medical product development as authorized under the 21st Century Cures Act.

On the Senate side, the Alliance for a Stronger FDA notes that the chamber will start appropriation deliberations in July after returning from its break. “With no budget deal in sight, (the) Senate is prepared to ‘deem’ a set of budget numbers and proceed in July to mark-up FY 20 appropriations bills," the group says. “This allows the process to move forward and Senators to sort out their priorities, but everyone understands that final adjustments will be needed once there is a budget deal that provides definitive spending amounts and constraints. Senate leadership has said only that they would be starting with lower aggregate numbers than the House.”