Trump's Proposed Budget Would Cut $2.2 Billion From Global Health Spending
The administration wants to reduce the current $8.7 global health budget by about 26 percent. Family planning programs would be the hardest hit.
U.S. aid for international family planning would be eliminated.
Programs to combat HIV/AIDS in the world's poorest countries would be slashed by 17 percent.
Efforts to fight malaria would be chopped by 11 percent.
Those are just some of the cuts to global health spending called for by President Trump in the proposed budget he unveiled this week.
On one level the reductions did not come as a surprise. Trump had already made clear in his "skinny budget" proposal, released in March, that he wanted to lower spending on foreign assistance by more than a
