But just for all of us to understand, we're being asked to cut NIH by $6 billion. Why? In order to provide a huge increase on the defense side. And According to one estimate, it would not take not even 2% of Trump's war budget to prepare candidate vaccines against active viral diseases. So I hope this committee rejects that request and works to make sure that we provide opportunity for, for Americans when it comes to biomedical research. (02:05–02:15)
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Asserts that less than 2% of the defense budget could prepare candidate vaccines against viral diseases.
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