President Donald Trump will participate in a rural health roundtable Friday as funds begin to roll out through the Rural Health Transformation Program created by last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The event is expected to begin at 10 a.m. EST. Watch live in the player above.
States will share $10 billion for rural health care in the program, which aims to offset the Trump administration’s massive budget cuts to rural hospitals.
While every state applied for money from the Rural Health Transformation Program, it won’t be distributed equally. And critics worry that the funding might be pulled back if a state’s policies don’t match up with the administration’s.
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Officials said the average award for 2026 is $200 million, and the fund puts a total of $50 billion into rural health programs over five years. States propose how to spend their awards, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services assigns project officers to support each state, said agency administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.
“This fund was crafted as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill, signed only six months ago now into law, in order to push states to be creative,” Oz said in a call with reporters last month.
