When Congress returns next week, lawmakers will have less than a month to pass the remaining nine appropriations bills funding federal agencies in fiscal year 2026.

The proposals announced Thursday would bar hospitals that receive federal funding from providing transition-related care to minors.

The Trump administration announced a series of sweeping regulatory actions Thursday to ban hospitals from offering gender-affirming care to minors. | Under the proposals, unveiled by Health and Health Services Secretary Robert F.

HHS proposes blocking Medicare and Medicaid funding for gender transition procedures on patients under 18, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calling such treatments malpractice.

The amount is less than the $6.3 billion that HHS’s Administration of Children and Families, which runs various refugee and asylee support programs, received in fiscal years 2024 and 2025.