Politico September 30, 2024
Still angry about the Covid response, GOP lawmakers want to overhaul the National Institutes of Health if they win in November.
House and Senate Republicans are plotting a new battlefront in the Covid wars.
They seek to rein in the sprawling National Institutes of Health by bringing to heel its civil servants and the leading scientists awarded the agency’s biggest research grants.
Republicans plan to do that, if they win control of Congress in November, by demanding to know more about what the NIH is funding, assigning more political appointees to keep tabs on the agency, significantly downsizing it and by spreading the wealth to a bigger group of grantees. Democrats in the Senate majority are blocking changes for now....
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