I have serious concerns about the worker training reductions, particularly the proposal to cut State grants by 40 percent and close Job Corps centers.
I was pleased with the President's decision to continue your leadership at NIH, and many of us had advocated for that.
there was no new money to do that, so it was truly a prioritization that eliminated programs and consolidated programs.
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.