The New Congressional Budget Deal Rejects Trump's Cuts to NIH
The president has proposed slicing billions of dollars from the premier research agency. Even his allies on the Hill are proposing billions in additional spending.
From the start, it didn’t seem likely Republican lawmakers would agree with President Trump’s proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health. Even some of the most conservative legislators had worked in recent years to increase the agency’s funding, and the White House figures represented a dramatic reversal of that effort.
With the release of their budget agreement for 2017, lawmakers have demonstrated how little they cared for the administration’s plans
