11/18/2021
https://www.msnbc.com...
"In fact, for over 10 years, Congress has been choking off vital funding for medical research and has reduced the buying power of the National Institutes of Health by nearly 25 percent."
"It doesn't matter what Republicans say about supporting innovation if their budgets actually cut support for NIH."
"Every single Member of Congress I've spoken with says that they support NIH and they support more medical research."
"So I do not think it is a good idea to ask them to do again what they previously failed to do spectacularly."