Tag: Eleanor Dehoney

Congress compels the Trump Administration to spend science and health funding

  Volume 407, Issue 10530                              
  21 February 2026
WORLD REPORT  Proposals for huge cuts to NIH and CDC budgets have been rejected, to the relief of scientists. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC. 
Congress rejected the Trump Administration’s request to cut the2026 budget of the National Institutes of Health by 40% and to slash nearly 50% from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budget. President Donald Trump signed the budget legislation into law on Feb 3. However, the relief of many research scientists and their supporters has given way to a new concern: can the Administration be trusted to spend funds as Congress intended—especially money it did not request for programmes it did not want? [Continued here.]
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Biden’s science adviser resigns over bullying

Volume 399, Issue 10326
19 February 2022

 

WORLD REPORT   Experts say that Eric Lander’s resignation should not affect the President’s plans to reboot the cancer moonshot project. Susan Jaffe reports.…

$6·5 billion proposed for new US health research agency

Volume 397, Issue 10288
22 May 2021

WORLD REPORT The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health would fund high-risk, high-reward medical research, but its short-term planning could stymie basic research. Susan Jaffe reports.

During his first address to a joint session of Congress last month, US President Joe Biden drew little applause from Republicans in the physically distanced, masked audience. A rare exception to their steadfast silence came when he unveiled an ambitious plan to eradicate cancer.

To help reach this goal, Biden would establish a new biomedical research agency within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). The agency would provide a fast track for transforming basic science into real-world applications. [Continued here.]

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