President Donald Trump highlighted mental health as a national crisis linked to societal issues like opioid addiction and mass shootings during his first term. His administration provided significant funding to enhance community mental health services and support enforcement of the parity law. However, after returning to the presidency, Trump paused rules meant to strengthen mental health protections. Additionally, funding cuts to the Employee Benefits Security Administration have been implemented, which may weaken oversight of mental health parity in employer-sponsored health plans.
During his first term, President Donald Trump frequently turned to the issue of mental health, framing it as a national crisis that demanded action.
His administration issued tens of millions of dollars in grants to expand community mental health services and continued funding contracts to help federal regulators enforce the parity law.
Just months after Trump returned to the presidency this year, his administration paused new rules issued in President Joe Biden's final months that were designed to strengthen mental health protections.
Congress has curtailed funding for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, or EBSA, a small agency in the Department of Labor that enforces mental health parity in most employer-sponsored health insurance plans.
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