Rosa DeLauro: “We need to enforce the Gainful Employment rule, we need to enforce the Borrower's Defense rule.”

The Senate bill text is a clear improvement over the House Republican continuing resolution.

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.

Not only is freezing the money in this proposal illegal, but the administration has also clearly been unlawfully impounding funds all year just to get to this point.

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