Surrender? Obama cuts immunization funding for poor $50 million

Published February 3, 2015 7:34pm ET



While he is encouraging every parent to have their child immunized, President Obama’s new budget cuts $50 million from an immunization program for poor, uninsured, American-Indian and Alaska Native citizens.

The new budget reduces the 317 Immunization Program from $611 million in 2015 to $561 million in 2016 according to budget papers and a handful of reports.

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