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The Trump Administration recently proposed a $5.8 billion cut in the NIH budget for 2018, as well as an additional $1.2 billion slash in the current fiscal year. Tom Price, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, defended those cuts at a hearing before the appropriations subcommittee in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday (March 29).
Both scientists and science advocates have expressed concern about the proposed cuts. One of the biggest worries is that a near-20 percent cut to NIH funding would mean that fewer research grants could be funded. And, according to STAT News, members of both the Democratic and Republican parties have expressed either scepticism toward the proposed cuts for FY2018 or an unwillingness to support them.
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