Trump orders an NIH women's health division and White House task force, setting no funding
Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will lead the task force.
The executive order targets maternal health, mental health and endometriosis, and it revokes a 2024 Biden order on women's health research.
- NIH already spends about $5 billion a year on women's health research, roughly 10% of its budget (Washington Examiner).
- Trump credited his wife: "Who the hell wouldn't have a women's health division? Melania said, 'They don't have it.'" (CBS News).
- No outlet reports a dollar figure attached to the new division (PBS NewsHour, CBS News).