"Republicans on spending committee push back against proposed reorganization and overhead cuts"
"In a stark rejection of President Donald Trump's plan to dramatically slash federally funded biomedical research in 2026, a Senate funding committee today approved a draft bill that instead gives the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a modest raise of $400 million. It also disregards Trump's plan to gut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The bill approved today by the Senate Committee on Appropriations includes $48.7 billion for NIH, or about 1% more than this year. That small of a bump is not something the biomedical community would normally celebrate, but Trump's budget proposal would have cut the agency by $18 billion, or about 40%. The Senate bill also rejects White House proposals such as a massive NIH reorganization and a plan to cap the 'indirect costs' added to NIH grants, which would drastically lower overhead reimbursement universities get for conducting research.
At a hearing today to mark up the bill, Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (ME), one of several Senate Republicans who have pushed back against the proposed NIH cuts, emphasized that the bill 'supports lifesaving research.'"
Jocelyn Kaiser reports for Science July 31, 2025.
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