President Donald Trumps proposed budget for 2021 seeks deep and widespread cuts to global health , slashing over $3 billion in funding.

The proposed cuts include a 34% reduction to the State Department and USAIDs global health funding and a 7% cut to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trumps budget wants to gut funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria with a 58% cut, and decrease U.S. funding for the World Health Organization by 50%.

Although there are some boosts in funding such as a $50 million increase for the CDCs global health security activities and $15 million for a USAID Global Health Security programs to target the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak they are paltry in comparison with the billions of dollars the administration seeks to take away.

Like all presidential budgets, its a statement of priorities thats unlikely to go into effect. But the statement made in this one is deeply troubling to lawmakers and public health experts, particularly given the current threat from the virus that has killed nearly a thousand people since it emerged in Wuhan, China, and spread to over 25 countries around the world in recent weeks.

Ive been working to keep in close touch with our health officials as they need to respond to the novel coronavirus, and I can tell you no one has suggested the thing they really need right now is a budget cut, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) told HuffPost.