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Official documentation (announcement, funding paperwork, or budget/appropriation records) specifies the investment amount and shows that amount exceeds all previously recorded rural health investments.
Multiple official sources (CMS and the White House) describe the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest rural-health–specific investment in U.S. history. CMS and HHS press releases and the White House video state that the $50B program—established in the 2025 reconciliation law (Public Law 119-21) and announced for distribution 2026–2030—is a landmark, historically unprecedented, dedicated federal investment targeted at rural health. Verdict: True — the best available evidence (official HHS/CMS and White House materials) supports the claim that this $50 billion program is the largest single dedicated federal investment explicitly targeted to rural health in U.S. history.