Let’s be honest about what this is: a move to siphon funds away from the nation’s premier medical research agency, which struggles to fund lifesaving research, to bankroll the Pentagon, the most heavily funded agency in our government.
Dick Durbin: “Let’s be honest about what this is: a move to siphon funds away from the nation’s premier medical research agency, which…”
On the recordSeptember 23, 2026
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Criticizing the funding transfer to the Pentagon.
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