Rosa DeLauro: “What we need to do is to have consistent funding for public health infrastructure.”

This secretive attempt to siphon research funds away from NIH is outrageous. The interagency agreement needs to be terminated immediately.

Circumventing Congress to divert money intended to help Americans who are exposed to HIV, influenza, tuberculosis, and other deadly diseases—and directing those funds to the Department of Defense—is beyond the pale.

These funds were provided for lifesaving medical research, not as extra money for the Department of Defense.

Whether a community receives disaster relief should not depend on who they voted for in the last election.