Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle touted the need to spend more money on healthcare research at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday on funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
House appropriations subcommittee chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said he was “especially disappointed” that President Trump’s proposed budget included an $8 billion cut for NIH. “That would potentially discourage promising scientists from entering or remaining in biomedical research,” he said.
