A 25% increase to the NIH budget is actually not that ridiculous. Adjusted for inflation, NIH funding has consistently been below its peak in 2003, so we have a lot of lost investment time to make up for it.
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Ian L Morgan
Some real talk, on a Friday evening before #NoKings:
This is a proposal designed to re-anchor our expectations. No Republican in Congress wants to walk the plank and vote for cuts to cancer research!
We shld not fall for it.
Our counter-proposal should be a 25% incr in govt support for research.
Mark Histed
A 20% budget cut atop multiyear funding-induced cuts to research and direct terminations of projects underway will further degrade American leadership in science.
This is early news & not even a proposal or appropriations - precisely the reason to speak out now.
rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...
The White House is expected to ask Congress to cut National Institutes of Health spending by 20 percent in the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to multiple sources with knowledge of t...
