Budget documents from the Chronicle Agency of RFK Jr.

Elizabeth Cooney is a journalist for cardiovascular disease with stat, covering heart, accidental and metabolic conditions.

The budgetary documents published by the Trump Administration Friday provide the first clear indication of the priorities of a new proposed agency focused on the prevention of chronic diseases.

The administration for a healthy America would absorb several federal agencies and existing programs, but the documents indicate that many initiatives have removed the centers for Disease Control and Prevention by a reduction in force (RIF) in April will be resurrected with reduced funding – or not at all.

The long -standing financing lines of the CDC for tobacco control, nutrition and obesity, school health, heart disease and brain vascular accidents, diabetes and cancer prevention and control are part of those who are zero and which provide elimination in the first budgetary justification of the new agency for congress.