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Patty Murray: As if canceling lifesaving medical research and clinical trials and firing cancer researchers en masse were not bad…

On the recordSeptember 4, 2026
As if canceling lifesaving medical research and clinical trials and firing cancer researchers en masse were not bad enough, the Trump administration is now trying to rob NIH of billions of dollars that Congress provided for medical research so that it can pad the Pentagon’s budget.
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington

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On the impact of funding diversion on medical research.

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