Doing More With … Well, About The Same. Congress Gives FDA Slight Bump In ‘24 Budget

A funding package of six budget bills required to avoid a government shutdown shows that Congress plans to allocate $6.72bn to the FDA for FY 2024, an increase of just over 2% above the agency’s 2023 budget. The increase, however, comes from user fees, not the agency’s budget authority, which lawmakers cut by $8m from last year.

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In a bipartisan deal to keep the government running, US lawmakers have agreed to a more than 1,000-page appropriations package in which Congress provides the Food and Drug Administration with about the same amount of funding it had last year.

The package passed the House of Representatives on 6 March and was taken up by the Senate on 8 March,...

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