House Appropriators Reject Docking FDA FY2023 Budget Until Formula Crisis Report Provided

First-term Iowa Republican Hinson had support from Democrat as well as other GOP members for withholding part of commissioner office’s FY2023 budget. Opposition from a self-acknowledged unlikely source, committee chair DeLauro, steered votes toward rejecting the proposal.

House appropriators moved $15m of the Food and Drug Administration commissioner’s office’s fiscal year 2023 budget to a proposed multi-agency program to stop opioid imports but rejected withholding 30% of the office’s funding until the agency explains the causes of the ongoing infant formula shortage.

Iowa Republican Ashley Hinson introduced both proposals in amendments during the Appropriations Committee’s hearing on 23 June for the Department...