The Division of Well being and Human Companies on Friday launched a abstract of President Trump’s price range request for the 2026 fiscal yr that gives essentially the most detailed look but at how his administration hopes to reshape the Nationwide Institutes of Well being and different federal businesses.
The “price range briefly” doc doubles down on a earlier request to slash NIH’s discretionary price range to $27.5 billion, an $18 billion or practically 40% discount. It additionally particulars plans to consolidate the company’s 27 institutes and facilities into simply eight. However whereas these plans have been disclosed in earlier paperwork that have been leaked or shared publicly by the administration, Friday’s price range abstract spells out extra clearly exactly the place these cuts would come from — and simply how deep they are going to be.
The president’s proposal would go away simply three of the NIH’s present institutes intact: the Nationwide Most cancers Institute, Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses, and the Nationwide Institute of Growing old. However that doesn’t imply these institutes could be spared. If enacted, Trump’s request would slash the budgets of NCI from $7.2 billion to $4.5 billion, NIAID from round $6.6 billion to $4.2 billion, and NIA from $4.4 billion to $2.7 billion.
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