A cut to NIH is not a cut to Washington bureaucracy; it is a cut to life-saving treatments and cures.
I certainly fundamentally disagree with the proposed funding reduction.
The cut is one that I think you can rest assured this committee will not take.
The $7.5 billion cut from NIH would, according to analysts, cost nearly 90,000 jobs nationwide.
It's the wrong message for the millions of Americans suffering from life-threatening diseases.
This Committee and Congress did not agree, instead, appropriating a $2 billion increase for a second year in a row.
I fundamentally disagree with the proposed funding reduction for NIH.
In my home State of Missouri, that equates to a loss of nearly 1,700 jobs and $292 million in economic activity.
The budget, of course, proposes cuts that I think that you can rest assured the committee will find unacceptable.
I think this is a problem that you can work out.
I do not think that characterizing this funding as 'something other than research' is fair or accurate.