The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have multiple programs representing tens of millions of dollars in congressional funding that are no longer operational due to massive layoffs. The Office on Smoking and Health received 246 million dollars this year with no staff, and the Alzheimer’s program has 41 million dollars with no one to manage it. The layoffs, decided by the Trump administration in April 2025 as part of a sweeping overhaul of the Department of Health and Human Services, affected researchers, scientists and doctors who ran these programs. Democrats say this situation violates the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, but there is no enforcement mechanism to compel compliance with this legislation.
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