That's our seed corn. It has been the strength of America . . . the biomedical research community, their creativity, their innovative instincts, and we're putting that at serious risk as we see this kind of downturn in the support for research.
Collins emphasizes the importance of biomedical research for America's future.
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But I have to tell you, both of those groundbreaking projects, BRAIN and All of Us, are now at severe risk because of budget and workforce cuts.
I`m a scientist, I`m a doctor, I`m not a politician, but somehow this is all gotten tangled up, and people have lost their grip on evidence of what ought to be used to make a decision like this.
Freedom has responsibilities, not just rights. And if this is what we have to do to get to the point where this virus is sent packing, well, that`s up to all of us to get there.
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