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Dick Durbin: “The agreement sets up a path for the Department of Defense and the NIH to collaborate on chemical and biological defense…”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2026
The agreement sets up a path for the Department of Defense and the NIH to collaborate on chemical and biological defense research and development. That’s a good thing, isn’t it? Of course it is. But who is going to pay for it?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Questioning funding sources for defense research.

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