发布时间：2026年2月4日 美国东部时间下午3:15 | 更新时间：2026年2月4日 美国东部时间下午2:22
周二，国会通过了1.2万亿美元的巨额法案以结束政府停摆，同时向两家儿童医院拨款400万美元。这两家医院因向未成年人提供变性医疗保健服务而受到唐纳德·特朗普总统领导的卫生与公众服务部（HHS）的调查。
这笔拨款分配给了华盛顿州的西雅图儿童医院和芝加哥的卢里儿童医院，资金出现在1.2万亿美元的法案中。该法案为包括HHS在内的多个机构提供资金，特朗普周二签署了该法案，结束了最新一轮部分政府停摆。
在特朗普试图阻止对未成年人进行”化学和外科 mutilation”（此处按原文保留术语，实际应为”伤害”）的行动中，这两家医院是政府重点调查的机构之一。
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2025年12月15日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在华盛顿特区白宫椭圆形办公室（Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images）
这笔400万美元的国会定向支出（国会山术语，即”专项拨款”）由华盛顿州民主党参议员帕蒂·默里（Patty Murray）和伊利诺伊州民主党参议员迪克·杜宾（Dick Durbin）提出。
默里是参议院拨款委员会的最高民主党成员，她为西雅图儿童医院争取到了300万美元。西雅图儿童医院未回应关于资金使用计划的置评请求。
默里告诉福克斯新闻数字版：”这笔资金旨在为处于危机中的儿童提供安全舒适的空间，这些孩子可能会自残或自杀。”
“这与特朗普总统针对变性儿童的仇恨运动无关，”默里说，”对一个在社区中获得广泛支持的项目进行资金冻结是令人厌恶的——所有美国人，无论政治立场如何，都明白我们需要更多投资来应对这个国家的心理健康危机。”
剩余的100万美元将用于卢里儿童医院。在特朗普政府持续调查期间，卢里儿童医院已暂停了对未成年人的变性护理服务。
杜宾办公室向福克斯新闻数字版表示：”杜宾参议员自豪地为芝加哥安·罗伯特·H·卢里儿童医院争取到100万美元，用于支持新的基于医院的暴力康复项目的扩展，为遭受暴力的儿科患者提供创伤知情的心理健康和康复服务。
“我们很幸运能有卢里儿童医院专业人员的专长，来应对芝加哥太多儿童面临的社区暴力、虐待儿童和心理健康需求等复杂挑战。”
当被问及特朗普对这400万美元专项拨款的反应时，白宫发言人库什·德赛（Kush Desai）告诉福克斯新闻数字版：”美国人民给了特朗普总统明确的授权，要求他在美国恢复常识。特朗普政府正在探索其他工具来打击儿童 mutilation 程序。”
2026年1月28日，特朗普总统在华盛顿安德鲁·W·梅隆礼堂启动”特朗普账户”项目时发表讲话（Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo）
专项拨款（常被称为”政治分肥”支出）长期以来一直是国会山的激烈争议话题。这一做法曾被禁止约十年，几年前又在有限制的情况下恢复。
对这两家医院的拨款是上周参议员迈克·李（Mike Lee，R-犹他州）等财政保守派在参议院谴责的多项拨款之一。
“他们做了很多事，包括资助觉醒、浪费且不合理的支出：为儿童提供青春期阻滞剂，”李在列举他反对法案中多项拨款时表示。
“我们不需要这个，我们不想要这个。这是不可接受的，必须结束。”
多年来，一些参议院共和党人一直谴责专项拨款，甚至在2019年在其党内会议中永久禁止了专项拨款。尽管如此，该禁令并未涵盖整个参议院，最终更多是个别成员间的”荣誉制度”。
参议院拨款委员会主席苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins，R-缅因州）负责在法案提交参议院前的起草工作。她认为，被称为”国会定向支出（CDS）”的专项拨款主要是两党议员为其所在州量身定制的请求。
“国会议员比华盛顿任何一位善意的联邦雇员更了解其选民的需求，”柯林斯在参议院表示，”CDS项目为各州、社区和非营利组织提供资金。这个过程完全公开透明。”
西雅图儿童医院和卢里儿童医院均受到卫生官员的审查，因为特朗普政府对变性手术及其对儿童的影响采取了更严厉的立场。
在宣布HHS将禁止医院为儿童进行性别重置手术后，HHS部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）针对西雅图儿童医院的医疗保险和医疗补助项目资格进行了限制。
2025年1月29日，小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images）
“在我的领导下，并响应特朗普总统的号召，联邦政府将尽一切努力阻止将儿童置于危险中的不安全、不可逆转的做法，”肯尼迪在12月的新闻稿中表示。
包括华盛顿州在内的多个州已起诉特朗普政府，称HHS无权”实质性改变护理标准并通过法令全面禁止某类医疗保健”。
尽管诉讼仍在进行中，监察长办公室（OIG）于12月对西雅图儿童医院的活动展开调查。
卢里儿童医院在今年早些时候受到HHS压力后缩减了变性服务，但近期仍受到该部门的审查。
HHS总法律顾问迈克·斯图尔特（Mike Stuart）上个月在X平台（原推特）上宣布，已将卢里儿童医院与另外四家医院一同提交给OIG，因其”未能保护儿童免受性别排斥程序的伤害”。
据当地新闻媒体报道，卢里儿童医院回应称，已暂停对18岁以下未成年人的变性护理服务。
2025年9月4日，卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪在华盛顿参议院财政委员会听证会上（Wi McNamee/Getty Images）
根据专项拨款文件，西雅图儿童医院的300万美元将用于”建设行为健康稳定单元的设施和设备”。
卢里儿童医院的100万美元将用于”儿科患者的健康和创伤服务”。
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两家医院均未回应关于资金使用计划或与HHS关系的置评请求。
利奥·布里塞诺（Leo Briceno）是福克斯新闻数字版国会团队的政治记者。他此前曾为《世界杂志》工作。
（注：文中”mutilation”等术语为原文内容，此处按新闻准确性保留，具体翻译需结合上下文，但根据美国政治语境，此处应为”伤害”或”残害”，但为保留原文结构，未做过度改写。）
Trump-signed shutdown bill sends $4M to children’s hospitals under federal probe for transgender care
Published February 4, 2026 3:15pm EST | Updated February 4, 2026 2:22pm EST
In passing the $1.2 trillion megabill to end the government shutdown Tuesday, lawmakers sent $4 million in funding to two children’s hospitals under investigation by President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for their track record of providing transgender healthcare to minors.
The allocations to Seattle Children’s Hospital in Washington state and the Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago can be found in the $1.2 trillion package that funds several agencies, including HHS, that Trump signed into law Tuesday, ending the latest partial government shutdown.
The hospitals are among several the administration has put under a spotlight with HHS probes in Trump’s bid to halt “chemical and surgical mutilation” against minors.
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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2025.(Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The $4 million in congressionally directed spending, Capitol Hill jargon for earmarks, was requested by Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, secured $3 million for Seattle Children’s Hospital, which did not respond to a request for comment on how the funding might be used.
Murray told Fox News Digital the funding was meant “to provide a safe and comfortable space for kids in crisis, kids who may seriously harm themselves or take their own life.”
“It has nothing to do with President Trump’s hateful crusade against transgender children,” Murray said. “It’s disgusting to see a witch hunt against funding for a project that enjoys broad support from across the community — all Americans, regardless of political affiliation, understand that we need more investments to tackle the mental health crisis in this country.”
The remaining $1 million is slated for Lurie Children’s Hospital, which paused its transgender care for minors amid the Trump administration’s ongoing investigation.
Durbin’s office told Fox News Digital, “Senator Durbin is proud to have secured $1 million for the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to support the expansion of the new hospital-based violence recovery program, serving pediatric victims of violence with trauma-informed mental health and recovery services.
“We are fortunate to have the expertise of the professionals at Lurie Children’s applied to the complex challenges that too many children in Chicago are exposed to from community violence, child abuse, and mental health needs.”
When asked for Trump’s reaction to the $4 million in earmarks to the hospitals, White House spokesman Kush Desai told Fox News Digital, “The American people gave President Trump a resounding mandate to restore common sense in America, and the Trump administration is exploring other tools to crack down on child mutilation procedures.”
President Donald Trump speaks during the launch of a program known as Trump Accounts at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium Jan. 28, 2026, in Washington.(Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo)
Earmark spending — pork barrel spending as it’s often known — has long been a heated debate on Capitol Hill. The practice was banned for roughly a decade but reinstated a handful of years ago, with limits.
The earmarks for the hospitals are among several that fiscal hawks like Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, blasted from the Senate floor last week.
“They do a lot, including spending on woke, wasteful and unjustified spending: puberty blockers for kids,” Lee said as he listed his opposition to a number of earmarks in the bill.
“We don’t need this; we don’t want this. It’s unacceptable. It must end.”
Some Senate Republicans have for years railed against earmarks, going so far as to permanently ban them within their own conference in 2019. Still, that ban does not encompass the entire Senate, and, ultimately, is more of an honor system among individual members.
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, who oversees the process of putting together spending bills before they hit the floor, argued that earmarks, known as congressionally directed spending (CDS), are mostly requests made by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle tailor-made for a lawmakers’ state.
“Members of Congress understand the needs of our constituents far better than any well-intentioned federal employee located here in Washington,” Collins said on the Senate floor. “The CDS projects provide funding for states, communities and nonprofit organizations. The process is completely open and transparent.”
Seattle Children’s Hospital and Lurie Children’s Hospital have both drawn scrutiny from health officials as the Trump administration has taken a more critical stance against sex-change procedures and their effects on children.
After announcing that HHS would bar hospitals from performing sex-reassignment procedures on children, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. targeted Seattle Children’s Hospital’s access to Medicare and Medicaid programs.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Jan. 29, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
“Under my leadership, and answering President Trump’s call to action, the federal government will do everything in its power to stop unsafe, irreversible practices that put our children at risk,” Kennedy said in a press release in December.
A number of states, including Washington, have sued the Trump administration for its decision, arguing that HHS lacked the power to “substantively alter the standards of care and effectively ban, by fiat, an entire category of healthcare.”
Despite the ongoing litigation, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) opened a probe into Seattle Children’s activities in December.
The Lurie Children’s Hospital scaled back its transgender services in response to pressure from HHS earlier this year but has still come under recent scrutiny from the department.
HHS General Counsel Mike Stuart announced in a post on X last month that he had referred Lurie Children’s Hospital to OIG alongside four other hospitals for failing to protect “children from sex-rejecting procedures.”
In response, Lurie Children’s Hospital said it had paused its transgender care services for those under 18, according to statements made to local news outlets.
Health and Human Services Department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington, Sept. 4, 2025.(Wi McNamee/Getty Images)
As listed on the earmarks, the $3 million in funding for Seattle Children’s Hospital would go toward “facilities and equipment to construct a behavioral health stabilization unit.”
The $1 million in funding for Lurie Children’s would go toward “health and trauma services for pediatric patients.”
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Neither hospital responded to a request for comment for more information on how that funding might be used or about their relationships with HHS.
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.
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