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Federal Appropriations for Breastfeeding

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Each year funding is allocated to a variety of federally funded programs that include breastfeeding support through the federal appropriations process. Appropriations for breastfeeding have helped build and strengthen critical programs and initiatives to improve maternity care practices, increase access to peer & professional support, ensure continuity of breastfeeding care, increase support for breastfeeding employees, and address disparities in breastfeeding rates. Funding relevant to the breastfeeding field are primarily included in the Labor-HHS and Agriculture appropriations bills. ​

Opportunities for Action

The USBC is urging Congress to increase funding for the CDC Hospitals Promoting Breastfeeding line item in the FY 2023 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. Learn more about the impact of this funding.

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Historic Funding Levels for the Hospitals Promoting Breastfeeding Program

  • FY2022: $9.75M
  • FY2021: $9.5M
  • FY2020: $9M
  • FY2019: $8M
  • FY2018: $8M
  • FY2017: $8M
  • FY2016: $8M
  • FY2015: $8M
  • FY2014: 8M
  • FY2013: $2.5M
  • FY2012: $7M

FY 2023 Appropriations: Current Status and What it Means for Infant Feeding

View the Congressional Research Service Appropriations Status Table to access House and Senate appropriations bills and associated reports. 

The House Committee on Appropriations approved the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bills and associated reports. Funding provisions that impact infant feeding are included in several appropriations bills:
  • Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
    • Bill Text
    • Bill Report
    • Committee Bill Markup
  • Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act
    • Bill Text
    • Bill Report
    • Committee Bill Markup
  • Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
    • Bill Text
    • Bill Report
    • Committee Bill Markup
A detailed analysis of the funded provisions from these bills and associated reports is included in the following chart. 

 

Connection to Infant Feeding

FY2022 Enacted

FY2023 President's Budget

FY2023 House Bill

FY2023 Senate Bill

FY2023 Enacted

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Hospitals Promoting Breastfeeding

Funding for this program comes from the Prevention and Public Health Fund to support breastfeeding families in maternity care settings, communities, and workplaces. 

$9.75M

$9.5M

$9.75M

TBD

TBD

 

Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health

The REACH program works to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities through local, culturally appropriate programs, including breastfeeding support programs.

$65.95M

$63.95M

$75.95M

TBD

TBD

Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country

The GHWIC program includes increased breastfeeding as a long-term goal.

$22.5M

$22M

$26.5M

TBD

TBD

Safe Motherhood and Infant Health

Breastfeeding is included in the Perinatal Quality Collaboratives and Substance Abuse During Pregnancy programs within the SMIH program.

$83M

$164M

$143M

TBD

TBD

National Early Child

Care Collaboratives

NECCC funding helps children up to five years old

develop healthy eating and

physical activity supporting

healthy growth, including brain development,

and decrease their risk later in life for obesity. CDC funds, trains, and assists in obesity prevention efforts

in early childhood education (ECE) settings, also known as child care, based on the CDC's guiding framework called the Spectrum of

Opportunities which outlines how states can

embed obesity prevention standards to ensure healthy

eating, breastfeeding

support, and physical activity and support and

monitor state ECE system

progress.

$4M

$4M

$5M

TBD

TBD

Office on Women’s Health

Analysis of the macroeconomic, health, and social costs of U.S. breastfeeding rates and national breastfeeding goals.

The Office on Women’s Health and the National Academy of Sciences shall provide a differential analysis of the current policies, programs, and investments aimed at increasing breastfeeding rates, reducing racial, geographic, and income-related breastfeeding disparities, and reducing U.S. reliance on formula, as well as propose recommendations for achieving the Healthy People 2020 and 2030 breastfeeding goals.

-

-

$1.25M

TBD

TBD

Health Resources Service Administration

Maternal and Child Health Block Grant

Breastfeeding is included in the MCH Block Grant National Performance Measures.

 

$747.7M

$953.7M

$872.7M

TBD

TBD

Healthy Start

The Healthy Start program implements community-based interventions to improve the health of mothers and children, including breastfeeding education.

$132M

$145M

$145M

TBD

TBD

Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies

RMOMS supports grants to improve access to and continuity of maternal and obstetrics care in rural communities by increasing the delivery of and access to preconception, pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum services, including breastfeeding support.

$6M

$10M

$8M

TBD

TBD

National Institutes of Health

Maternal Health and Pregnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Initiative

The IMPROVE initiative supports research to reduce preventable causes of maternal deaths and improve health for women before, during, and after delivery.

$43.4M

$30M

$30M

TBD

TBD

Research on COVID-19 and pregnancy and postpartum health

NICHD will support research on mitigating the effects of COVID-19 on pregnancies, lactation, and postpartum health with a focus on individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups.

N/A

$3M

$3M

TBD

TBD

Pregnant Women and Lactating Women Advisory Committee

The Committee includes funding for the creation of an Advisory Committee to monitor and report on the implementation of the recommendations from the Task Force on Research Specific to Pregnant Women and Lactating Women (PRGLAC).

N/A

N/A

$200k

TBD

TBD

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Pregnant and Postpartum Women Substance Use Disorder

Support for breastfeeding and lactation are included in some resources produced through this program.

$34.9M

$43.4M

$49.9M

$TBD

TBD

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program

WIC provides supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age 5 who are found to be at nutritional risk.

$6B

$6B

$6B

TBD

TBD

WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program

WIC peer counselors are mothers in the community with personal breastfeeding experience who are trained to give information and support to new moms.

$90M

$90M

$90M

TBD

TBD

Food and Drug Administration

Maternal and Infant Health and Nutrition program

The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition to take regulatory and other actions to address emerging issues of concern, including nutrition work specific to infants, toddlers, and pregnant and lactating women.

$11M

$20M

-

TBD

TBD

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Research on Health Costs, Quality, and Outcomes: Improving Maternal Health

This new funding will support research to ensure that Federal, State, and local policymakers have timely and accurate data and useful analytic resources about maternal health and the healthcare system with which to make informed policy decisions.

N/A

$7.4M

$7.4M

TBD

TBD

Federal Agency/Division

FY2022 Enacted

FY2023 President's Budget

FY2023 House Bill

FY2023 Senate Bill

FY2023 Enacted

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

$8.46B

$10.7B

$10.5B

TBD

TBD

Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity

$58.4M

$56.9M

$58.4M

TBD

TBD

Health Resources and Services Administration

$8.9B

$13.3B

$9.6B

TBD

TBD

Maternal and Child Health Bureau

$1B

$1.75B

$1.2B

TBD

TBD

U.S. Department of Labor

$13.2B

$14.6B

$15B

TBD

TBD

Wage and Hour Division

$251M

$307.7M

$313M

TBD

TBD

Women's Bureau

$18M

$25M

$35M

TBD

TBD

Office of Minority Health

$64.8M

$86M

$81M

TBD

TBD

Office on Women's Health

$38.1M

$42M

$48M

TBD

TBD

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

$350.4M

$415.9M

$385M

TBD

TBD

National Institutes of Health

$45B

$62.5B

$47.5B

TBD

TBD

Office of Research on Women’s Health

$59M

$52.6M

$64M

TBD

TBD

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

$420M

$464.7M

$464.7M

TBD

TBD

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