Tens of millions of dollars in funding for health programs run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that had been blocked by the Trump administration is being released to grantees.

According to several CDC employees, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the agency’s spending plans for specific grants, which had been held up since at least the end of July.

OMB did not return a request for comment.

CDC is now scrambling to dole out funding for youth violence prevention programs, research on preventing gun injuries and deaths, public health emergency preparedness, tobacco research, research on chronic disease, and more, totaling at least $200 million, according to a list of programs seem by The Hill.

“A lot of prep work has been done, but it wi

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