Tag: Senator Patty Murray

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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Califf takes the helm at the US FDA, again

Volume 399, Issue 10330
19 March 2022 

WORLD REPORT   Robert Califf will have to face several controversial health issues in his second tenure as commissioner. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.  

Califf takes over amid a lull in the COVID-19 pandemic and an array of hotly debated issues 9 months before a congressional election. The
election results could shrink, if not eliminate, the Democratic majority President Joe Biden needs to propel his health agenda, including the relaunched cancer moonshot and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health that would accelerate the development of medical treatments. [Plus new COVID-19 tests and treatments, opioid misuse, accelerated approval process, abortion pill conflict, continued here.] 
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