Trump Wants Science Cuts, and Congress Responds With a Portrait
- Trump has proposed cutting NIH budget, Congress opposes plan
- GOP lawmaker suggests portrait honoring NIH champion instead
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President Donald Trump has asked Congress to cut funding to the National Institutes of Health by billions of dollars. Instead, lawmakers may put up a portrait of a congressional champion of health research efforts.
In March, Trump’s administration proposed cutting U.S. biomedical research funding at the National Institutes of Health by $5.8 billion. As part of the cut, the administration would eliminate the NIH’s Fogarty International Center, a key player in snuffing out lethal disease outbreaks around the world.