Research Advocates Prepare for Next NIH Budget Fight
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Medical research advocates are bracing for a grinding election-year fight over the future of the National Institutes of Health with the expected release of the Trump administration’s FY 2027 budget Friday.
Why it matters: Congress rejected the steep 40% cut the administration proposed for NIH last year, but the biomedical research institution continues to feel fallout from canceled grants, layoffs and a slower pace of getting money out the door to academic researchers.
Driving the news: Trump’s budget is expected to reheat much of last year’s debate, though advocacy groups don’t expect it to call for as big a cut.
- “The president has said he wants to make America healthy again. He said he wants to end cancer. These things are only possible if you increase the funding of the NIH,” said Russ Paulsen, executive director of United for Cures, a network of patient advocacy groups.
- His organization preemptively released polling this week finding 66% of voters opposed a hypothetical 20% cut to federal medical research funding.
- A spokesperson for the White House budget office did not respond to requests for comment.
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