FDA Safety Initiatives Could Suffer Under Trump's Budget Proposal

User fee-heavy budget proposes appears to tie into Trump's broader deregulatory strategy; CDER and CBER would have to make cuts to non-user fee safety initiatives.

While the US FDA would get a 10% bump in total resources to $5.1 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2018 under the Trump administration's proposed budget, the predominantly user fee-funded proposal would result in cuts to some of the agency's safety initiatives for its medical products and several non-user fee related programs.

The president's budget proposal, released May 23, would slash budgetary funding of the agency by $854 million, or roughly 31%...

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