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On the recordMarch 24, 2015
the House Republican budget and the Senate Republican budget were released last week, and both say that they support medical research funding, but what the Republican budgets actually do is lower the budget caps that are already crushing our research agencies, making it likely that the agencies like the NIH would see cuts, not increases, under these plans.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren highlights contradictions in Republican budgets regarding NIH funding.

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