Trump Budget: 71% Of US FDA Device Funding Would Come From User Fees

The Trump White House is not backing down in its push to renegotiate the US FDA user-fee reauthorization deals that were inked during the Obama administration. The FY 2018 budget request would ask for more than a $200m increase in fees from device companies in the coming fiscal year to counterbalance major cuts in appropriations from Congress. That would make the agency's device program dependent on user fees for about 71% of its budget, versus about 27% currently. But Congress has already said it opposes the plan.

The Trump administration's FDA is sticking with its effort to renegotiate the MDUFA IV user-fee deal in its FY 2018 budget request, asking the device industry pay an additional $250m-plus in fees next fiscal year beyond what was agreed to.

But the administration push to "recalibrate" the user-fee programs at this stage has already been rejected out of hand by...

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