White House Proposes Large Cuts to NIH Research This Year
- NIH-funded research would drop by $1.23 billion in fiscal 2017
- AIDS assistance worldwide faces cut of almost $300 million
The National Institutes of Health Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Oct. 17, 2014.
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President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed cutting $1.23 billion this fiscal year from research funded by the National Institutes of Health, according to a White House document sent to congressional appropriators.
The reduction is part of $18 billion in cuts that the administration wants in fiscal 2017, which ends in October. Most of the proposed reductions at NIH would come from research grants, with $50 million specifically taken from a program meant to support biomedical research in states that typically get less agency money.