This showed up awhile back in The Guardian:

Trump administration cancels up to $1.9bn for substance use and mental health

My initial thought: So it’s finally happened. Letters had begun to arrive at providers of addiction and mental health services, announcing that their grant-funded programs were officially defunded, as of now.

I doubt it came as a total surprise. I’ve been warning clients that something like this was in the offing since the day after the election.

The only questions: when it would happen, which programs would be impacted, and exactly how big the total cuts would be.

Turns out it was a lot: almost $2 billion.

Things were about to get ugly.

But then, something weird happened.  Another article appeared, the very next day.

US health officials reverse course and reinstate $1.9bn to mental health and substance use

Amazingly, in the space of hours, a group of Congress-critters had staged an “intervention” of sorts to persuade the Administration to reverse itself. Their appeal was based on the extreme need of the American people for programs that worked and deserved to be continued, rather than sacrificed to the gods of the budget.

Somehow, it worked. The Guardian describes the abrupt reversal as a “…blow to the agenda of Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, who has made aggressive and legally contested cuts to health agencies.”

Indeed he has, and was expected to make still more.

Representative Rosa DeLauro, D-Connecticut, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, had this to say:

“After national outrage, Secretary Kennedy has bowed to public pressure and reinstated $2 billion in SAMHSA grants that save lives… These are cuts he should not have issued in the first place… [that] created uncertainty and confusion for families and healthcare providers.”

Apparently unnamed persons within the Administration have confirmed the restoration of funds to the grants, but have not yet specified how much is to be restored, or to which grants it will go.

Nonetheless, this is unexpected good news for victims of substance and mental health disorders. We can only hope it holds up under fire.