The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.
The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Budget supports HHS’s mission by prioritizing key investments that work towards fulfilling the Administration’s commitments to improve American health care, address the opioid crisis, lower the cost of drugs, and streamline federal programs. The Budget reforms the Department’s programs to better serve and safeguard the American people, while prioritizing key investments within them.
The Budget proposes $87.1 billion in discretionary budget authority and $1.2 trillion in mandatory funding for HHS. It reflects HHS’s commitment to making the federal government more efficient and effective by focusing spending in areas with the highest impact.
The Budget includes $17 million (a decrease of $10 million from FY 2019) for victims of trafficking to screen and identify victims and to provide victims with services, including case management, emergency assistance, and medical services. In coordination with the Department of Justice’s Office of Victims of Crime, ACF serves both foreign national and U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are victims of trafficking. In addition, ACF funds a National Human Trafficking Hotline and works to raises awareness to prevent human trafficking.
- Access the full FY2020 Budget in Brief (PDF) and full HHS announcement .
- Stream Secretary Azar's testimony at the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2020 HHS Budget on March 12 at 12 PM EST.
- Stream Secretary Azar's testimony at the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the President’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget on March 14 at 10:15 AM EST.