WATCH: Sen. Ossoff Sounds Alarm on Trump Admin’s Threats to Gut Diabetes Research at CDC

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is sounding the alarm that the Trump Administration's budget would gut diabetes research at the CDC.

Today, in a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Sen. Ossoff raised concern again that the Trump Administration's proposed FY26 budget would gut the CDC's budget by over 50% and pledged to continue working across the aisle in the Senate to protect the CDC.

In the hearing, Sen. Ossoff asked Dr. Griffin Rodgers, Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), how the Trump Administration's proposed cuts to diabetes research could harm diabetes research collaboration between the NIH and CDC.

"I want to raise once again for the committee and the public, my bitter opposition to the Trump Administration's proposal to cut the CDC budget by more than half in Fiscal Year '26, which will have a devastating impact on epidemiological defense and health research to defend the American public from deadly diseases," Sen. Ossoff warned.

During the hearing, Sen. Ossoff warned that the Trump Administration's budget request proposes to eliminate the CDC's Diabetes Division responsible for diabetes data collection and research and the CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity.

"I will fight this effort to destroy the CDC with everything I have as a member of the United States Senate. And, if we on a bipartisan basis in the Senate do not defeat this effort to gut the CDC, the American people will pay for it in lives, in suffering for decades to come," Sen. Ossoff continued.

Sen. Ossoff asked Dr. Rogers to provide any information about his division's vital work with the CDC to prevent diabetes and improve the quality of life for people living with diabetes.

Click here to watch Sen. Ossoff's line of questioning about gutting diabetes research at the CDC.

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