Seek increased funding for the CDC Global Health account to reduce reliance on State Department transfers and support global disease surveillance.

Directly increase funding for CDC’s Global Health account, which would reduce CDC’s reliance on future transfers from State, while continuing its efforts to support global health surveillance by maintaining relationships with foreign Ministers of Health.

Booker and colleagues asked appropriators to increase CDC Global Health funding to sustain disease surveillance and reduce dependence on future State Department transfers.

Booker Urges Senate Colleagues to Oppose Trump Administration Changes to CDC’s Global Disease Programs
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The FY 2027 CDC request lists Global Health at $663.843 million, level with FY 2026 enacted; funding history shows FY 2023 and FY 2024 at $692.843 million, then FY 2025-FY 2027 at $663.843 million.

Latest available CDC budget document before the lookback window shows no new increase in the CDC Global Health account; the account remains below the FY 2023-FY 2024 level.

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CDC FY 2027 Congressional Justification
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The FY 2025 justification lists CDC Global Health budget authority at $692.843 million for FY 2023 final, FY 2024 CR, and the FY 2025 President's Budget; it describes CDC as the U.S. infectious disease outbreak-response lead and says CDC helps countries improve disease surveillance and laboratory capacity.

By FY 2023, CDC Global Health funding was $100 million above the FY 2021 level shown in CDC's FY 2022 request documents, and the account supported global disease surveillance and response functions.

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FY 2025 CDC Congressional Justification
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CDC requested $697.843 million for Global Health in FY 2022, $105 million above FY 2021 enacted; Global Public Health Protection was proposed at $303.2 million, $100 million above FY 2021, for surveillance, labs, workforce, and emergency response.

The administration sought the kind of CDC Global Health account increase described in the commitment early in Booker's 2021-2027 Senate term, including specific global public health protection and surveillance capacity.

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FY 2022 CDC Congressional Justification
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The Senate agreed to the H.R. 2617 appropriations motion, 68-29; Booker (D-NJ) is recorded as voting Yea.

Booker voted for the omnibus appropriations vehicle that funded FY 2023 accounts later reflected by CDC as $692.843 million for Global Health, higher than FY 2021 enacted.

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U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote 421, 117th Congress, 2nd Session
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The Africa and Global Health Policy subcommittee has global responsibility for health-related policy, including disease outbreak and response; Cory Booker is listed as ranking member for the 119th Congress.

Booker retained an official committee role directly connected to global health and outbreak response, but this is oversight/jurisdiction evidence rather than proof of a new funding increase.

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittees
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