Exactly this. The people in power have been nakedly cutting taxes and cutting expenditures in the regulatory state. This is the obvious, foreseeable result, and we cannot let politicians pretend these things will fix themselves thru magic.
doesn't seem like it based on the FDA Fact Sheets. where are you seeing the annual increases?
"The FY 2025 Budget provides a $7.2 billion total program funding level for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This includes an overall increase of 7.4 percent or $495 million over the FY 2023 funding level" [1]
"The FY 2024 budget provides a $7.2 billion total program level for FDA. " [2]
"The FY 2023 budget provides an $8.4 billion total program level for FDA." [3]
[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/176923/download