The Trump administration announced hundreds of millions of dollars in new healthcare grants for all 50 states on Monday as part of a program launched by President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act over the summer.
The law allocated $50 billion for a new Rural Health Transformation program to partially offset nearly $140 billion in cuts to Medicaid’s rural health spending over the next 10 years. The new “transformation” grants, set to be awarded over the next five years, are not meant to help states and local municipalities “pay off bills” but instead to “right-size the system,” according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz.
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