TY - JOUR T1 - The Trump budget: what does it mean for global health? JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 358 LP - 358 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X691925 VL - 67 IS - 661 AU - Luke Allen Y1 - 2017/08/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/661/358.abstract N2 - On 23 May the Trump administration released its hotly anticipated 2018 budget proposal. Entitled A New Foundation for American Greatness, the document sets out a radical, and oddly self-defeating, ‘America first’ agenda that has sweeping ramifications for global health.1The 2016–2017 budget ran to just over $4 trillion, with a $500 billion deficit feeding America’s $20 trillion debt mountain (∼100% of GDP).2 The administration aims to eliminate the deficit over 10 years by slashing $4.3 trillion from government spending; however, total expenditure will remain unchanged for 2018. You already know that the Department of Defense is receiving a $52 billion bump, and social security and federal health insurance for the elderly are to remain untouched. To balance the books Trump proposes swingeing cuts to virtually every other area of non-defence spending.The Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Centers for … ER -