Politico January 15, 2026
With help from Carmen Paun, Amanda Chu, Ruth Reader and Lauren Gardner
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QUICK REVERSAL — The Department of Health and Human Services has reinstated nearly 3,000 substance use disorder and mental health services grants worth nearly $2 billion a day after terminating them, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter, our Carmen Paun reports.
The cuts had hit discretionary grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an HHS agency, and included youth overdose prevention and medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder, among other things.
Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said in a statement late Wednesday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had reinstated the...
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