What was the CDC appropriation amount in the FY2025 federal budget?

1. The number in the President’s proposal: $9.683 billion, and what it covers

The official CDC FY2025 request — described in CDC’s budget overview and the agency’s media statement — lists a total request of $9.683 billion in discretionary budget authority plus funds from the Prevention and Public Health Fund and PHS evaluation transfers, with the Administration framing that as a $499.2 million increase over the FY2023 enacted level ^{[1] [2]}.

2. A second large component: $6.1 billion proposed as a transfer for preparedness

Separately, the Congressional Research Service highlights that the President’s FY2025 package proposes a $6.1 billion public health preparedness transfer to CDC drawn from a proposed $20 billion Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, intended to be available over five years to modernize labs, surveillance, and other preparedness capacities — a mandatory-style infusion that the administration included in the request but which depends on Congressional action to become law ^[3].

3. How advocates and stakeholders responded: competing frames on adequacy

Stakeholders pushed markedly different figures: coalitions of public-health and disease-specific groups urged Congress to appropriate at least $11.581 billion for CDC programs in FY2025, arguing the Administration’s request would leave gaps in prevention and local health support ^[4]. City and local health advocacy groups emphasized that many CDC dollars flow to state and local health departments and warned that flat or insufficient funding would harm public health infrastructure — a perspective echoed in advocacy and industry summaries of the President’s request ^{[5] [6]}.

4. What “appropriation” means here, and a reporting limit

The sources provided are primarily the Administration’s budget documents and Congressional overviews that describe the President’s request and stakeholder reactions; they do not document a final, enacted appropriations figure from Congress for FY2025. Therefore, the clearest, verifiable statement available in the reporting is that the President requested $9.683 billion for CDC discretionary and related public health fund authorities and proposed a separate $6.1 billion preparedness transfer — not that Congress had enacted that exact total ^{[1] [2] [3]}. The Congressional Research Service and CDC publication materials make clear the difference between a presidential request and what Congress ultimately appropriates ^{[3] [7]}.

5. The political and strategic context behind the numbers

The Administration’s submission bundles base discretionary funding with PPHF and PHS transfer authorities to present a single CDC number, while proposing a new multi-year emergency fund transfer that would effectively create a large dedicated preparedness pool; advocates for higher appropriations frame the request as inadequate for core prevention programs and local capacity, and groups urging cuts or different priorities see the transfer as a way to target modernization and biodefense — demonstrating divergent agendas behind a single set of headline figures ^{[1] [3] [4]}.

6. Bottom line answer and what remains to be confirmed

The direct answer supported by the provided reporting: the President’s FY2025 budget request sought $9.683 billion for CDC discretionary budget authority plus Prevention and Public Health Fund and PHS Evaluation funds, and separately proposed a $6.1 billion preparedness transfer to CDC from a $20 billion emergency fund; the actual enacted appropriation by Congress for FY2025 is not documented in the supplied sources and therefore cannot be confirmed here ^{[1] [2] [3]}.