The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have included funding for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in their foreign assistance appropriations bill for fiscal year 2026.
This is a welcome development for the global health community, given that about six months ago, the Trump administration said it would cut all funding for the organization. While appropriators from both bodies of Congress have agreed to this bill, it still needs a vote in both chambers, and then it will be presented for U.S. President Donald Trump’s approval, before it can be signed into law.
The U.S. fiscal year started last October. But the government couldn’t get the budget passed by then, which led to the federal shutdown. Congress then passed a temporary spending bill that provides funding to keep the government open through Jan. 30 — meaning a new spending bill would need to be passed by then.
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
