SDPI currently serves more than 780,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives each year!
SDPI expires on December 31, 2024. The time to act is now. Congress should immediately support SDPI reauthorization and the following Tribal priorities:
- Permanently reauthorize SDPI
- Increase SDPI funding to $250 million annually
- Automatically increase SDPI funding to adjust for medical inflation
- Permit Tribes to receive SDPI funds through self determination and selfgovernance contracts and compacts under the ISDEAA
- Exempt SDPI from sequestration