Politico November 7, 2024
AROUND THE AGENCIES
The National Institutes of Health is ripe for an overhaul after Republicans’ victories in Tuesday’s election.
Republicans are slated to control the White House and the Senate and well-positioned to win the House. A trifecta next year would enable them to advance their existing proposals to overhaul the NIH, the world’s leading funder of health research.
And then there’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has his own ideas and whom President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll put in charge of a broader health agency rethink.
The NIH, with its $47 billion budget, funds crucial biomedical research at universities and institutions nationwide. Any overhaul could affect thousands of researchers and potentially reshape biomedical innovation.
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