PAA and APC, signed on to the Friends of NICHD letter to the House and Senate Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies urging to continue to support NIH and NICHD in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The Friends of NICHD coalition has endorsed the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research FY 2025 funding recommendation, which would provide the NIH with $51.3 billion in funding. Aligned with this request, we call for a proportionate increase to NICHD, bringing its funding to $1.891 billion in FY 2025. We further request that NICHD’s base budget in FY 2025 grow at the same rate as the NIH’s base budget overall in FY 2025 spending legislation. In addition, we request that any funding provided for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) funding supplement, and not supplant, the base funding for NIH and NICHD.