We urge you to reverse the cuts to our global health programs, rejoin the WHO, and ensure that we have the expert staff at the CDC and the State Department needed to prevent and manage any future outbreaks of deadly diseases before they endanger Americans.
Press the State Department and CDC to reverse cuts to U.S. global health programs, rejoin the World Health Organization, and maintain expert staff needed to prevent and manage future deadly disease outbreaks.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Within the lookback window, reporting described proposed HIV/AIDS cuts, foreign-aid disruptions, USAID dismantling, and slowed PEPFAR global health programs.
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The Clerk recorded Brownley as voting Yea on House passage of H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act.
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The law provided CDC global health funding for emerging infectious disease threats, disease detection/response, data modernization, and public-health workforce expansion.
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The order revoked the 2021 WHO withdrawal retraction, paused future WHO resources, recalled U.S. personnel, and directed replacement of the 2024 Global Health Security Strategy.
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AP reported CDC staff were directed to stop WHO collaboration, including technical working groups, advisory boards, and cooperative agreements.
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AP reported the United States finalized WHO withdrawal on January 22, 2026, ending membership and risking reduced global health data access.
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CDC announced 2026 awards totaling about $22.5 million over five years for disease surveillance, outbreak response, field epidemiology, emergency management, diagnostics, and public-health workforce development in Vietnam, Tanzania, and Southeast/East Asia.
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Brownley led 73 colleagues pressing Secretary Rubio and CDC Acting Director Bhattacharya over Ebola response failures and asked them to reverse global health cuts, rejoin WHO, and retain expert CDC and State staff.
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Total change (and percent change) in 5-year global health funding among countries with agreements: -$7.3 billion (-34%)
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All U.S. government funding to the WHO has been terminated.
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According to HHS officials, the U.S. is no longer engaged with WHO and is not advancing this referenced UN resolution and initiatives.
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We urge you to reverse the cuts to our global health programs, rejoin the WHO, and ensure that we have the expert staff at the CDC and the State Department needed to prevent and manage any future outbreaks of deadly diseases before they endanger Americans.
Assessments
Brownley materially acted on the promise by voting for the 2021 American Rescue Plan funding CDC global health, surveillance, response, and workforce capacity, and later leading a 2026 oversight letter pressing State and CDC to reverse global health cuts, rejoin WHO, and retain expert staff. However, the full promised outcome was not durably achieved: U.S. WHO rejoining was later reversed, CDC-WHO collaboration was halted, and global health funding and staffing cuts remained active issues in 2026. This supports partial credit with later-term timing, not full delivery.
Brownley materially supported part of the pledge by voting for the American Rescue Plan Act, which enacted CDC global health, surveillance, disease-response, and public-health workforce funding in 2021. The Biden administration also reversed the prior WHO withdrawal and restored U.S. participation, satisfying part of the WHO component during the same federal term. However, the broader promise was not durably or fully fulfilled: U.S. WHO participation and CDC-WHO collaboration were later reversed, and global health funding/staffing remained under renewed cuts and disruption by 2025-2026. Because some promised outcomes were achieved with Brownley's legislative support but the full package was not maintained, partial credit is appropriate.