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SAMHSA employees, including leadership, were reportedly unaware of the cuts until a few hours before the letters went out. The decision to terminate the grants is being widely attributed to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who in 2025 gutted SAMHSA and intends to consolidate the remains into his proposed Administration for a Healthy America, once it exists. “After national outrage, Secretary Kennedy has bowed to public pressure and reinstated $2 billion in SAMHSA grants that save lives. These are cuts he should not have issued in the first place,” Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) stated January 14