Not surprisingly, this headline caught my attention—Mental Health Jobs Boom Threatened By Trump’s Funding Cuts—when it appeared yesterday. The facts aren’t surprising. The Trump administration has sought to revoke more than $11 billion in grants for behavioral health services and an additional $1 billion for mental health services in schools. This includes many of the Biden administration’s programs focused on expanding the behavioral health workforce. During this same time period, the Administration also announced it would no longer enforce mental health parity laws (see Trickle Down Effect and Feds Halt Enforcement Of Updated Mental Health Parity Act).

And then there is the Congressional budget bill, just signed into law last week (see …