Politico April 29, 2024
With Megan Messerly
CONGRESS PULLS BACK $$ — President Joe Biden’s cancer moonshot — his plan to lower the death rate by half over 25 years — isn’t the bipartisan priority it once was.
The spending package Congress passed in March doesn’t include funding for the 21st Century Cures Act, the 2016 law that provided the moonshot’s most direct funding stream — $1.8 billion in total.
The NIH budget also fell, from $47.5 billion in fiscal 2023 to $47.1 billion this year, a net cut of $378 million.
What’s going on? The new budget is tight across the board, reflecting Republicans’ control of the House, deficit concerns and, not least, the GOP’s desire to deny Biden a win months before...
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