The budget released by the White House Thursday would cut $5.8 billion in funds to the National Institutes of Health, or roughly 19 percent of its total budget, according to The Washington Post.
In addition to axing a large chunk of its funding, the Trump administration's budget would also reorganize the agency's 27 institutes, consolidate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and completely eliminate the Fogarty International Center, which builds partnerships between U.S. and foreign health research institutions.
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The White House's budget still needs to pass through Congress, and funding the NIH has been a "bipartisan priority for years," according to according to STAT. Some leading Republicans are at odds with cutting NIH funding: Republican Rep. Tom Cole from Oklahoma said earlier this month he wanted to boost NIH funding by as much as $2 billion, and Republican Sen. Roy Blunt from Missouri has also called for increasing funds for the NIH.
The NIH conducts and supports research on a variety of topics, including the cause, prevention and cure of disease.
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