"Both chambers of Congress have now rejected Trump’s proposed 40% cut"
"Like a Senate panel in July, a U.S. House of Representatives spending committee has rejected President Donald Trump’s request to gut the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A bill released today would give the agency a base budget of about $47 billion in the 2026 fiscal year that begins on 1 October, essentially the same level as this year.
However, the bill proposes a 37% cut to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an independent agency within NIH to fund financially risky, cutting-edge research. The bill would also slash the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by 19%. And it would ban funding for certain pathogen experiments and fetal tissue research.
Trump had proposed cutting NIH by 40%, eliminating three of its 27 institutes and centers, and consolidating the rest into eight institutes including some new ones. Instead, the bill to be marked up later today by the Republican-led House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee that oversees spending for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) maintains NIH’s current configuration and gives institute budgets a slight overall raise of $99 million to $46.9 billion."
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