Patty Murray: “Congressional Republicans have for years now held that…”

“And not that now that that was only possible because our overall non defense budget was growing. But now what we have in front of us is that Congressional Republicans have for years now held that domestic budget flat. And, and that meant that NIH funding has been essentially flat for the last three years, resulting in fewer grants and fewer cures. And the budget that we have now been presented by you and the President are literally asking Congress to cut NIH's budget by $6 billion in order to provide room to give Trump his $1.5 trillion war budget.” (00:51–01:04)

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