Senators press NIH director on killed

参议员就经费削减及大幅削减机构资金提案向NIH主任施压

Jay Bhattacharya says NIH's final budget will be a "collaboration"

杰伊·巴塔查里亚称NIH的最终预算将是"合作"的结果

By Jocelyn Kaiser

作者:Jocelyn Kaiser

10 Jun 2025 6:25 PM ET

2025年6月10日下午6:25(美国东部时间)

Democrats on a key Senate spending committee today provided a less than warm welcome to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director, who was called in to testify about the agency's 2026 budget proposal. The politicians slammed health economist Jayanta "Jay" Bhattacharya for freezes and cuts to thousands of grants and other moves by President Donald Trump's administration that they say are dismantling U.S. biomedical research. And key Republicans on the Senate appropriations panel joined with Democrats in indicating they are unlikely to go along with the White House's proposal to slash the agency's budget by 40% in 2026.

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