Spending law a rebuke to proposed White House biomedical cuts

Congress has repudiated the Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to biomedical research funding and rejected proposed structural reforms that were intended to institutionalize parts of the Make America Healthy Again ideology.

Congress appropriated $48.7 billion for NIH, an increase of about $415 million compared with fiscal 2025. The Trump administration had requested $27.9 billion, a 40% reduction...