Anyone following federal appropriations could be feeling some whiplash as the Biden administration publishes its fiscal year 2025 budget request with the ink barely dry on legislation the president signed to fund some federal agencies through the remainder of FY2024.
Biden Administration's $7.13Bn FDA Budget Request For FY2025 Includes $3.3Bn In User Fees
White House’s 1,298-page budget request published on 11 March includes around $2m more than the agency’s total FY2024 spending Congress approved on 8 March and the president signed the next day. Of FDA’s total FY2025 spending $3.286bn would come from user fees.

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“It's kind of a free for all,” says longtime FDA funding advocate Steven Grossman. FDA knew funding it requested “was totally inadequate to the needs. So, Food Chemical Safety is stuck there with about six or eight other purposes the money could have been used for.
FDA says “extension affords covered entities the additional time necessary to ensure complete coordination across the supply chain in order to fully implement the final rule’s requirements—ultimately providing FDA and consumers with greater transparency and food safety.”
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