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. So Dr. Bhattacharya, how do you justify cutting NIH research by billions to send a half a trillion more to the Pentagon? Do you personally support that? (01:04–01:21)
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Asserts that the current budget proposal asks Congress to cut NIH's budget by $6 billion to fund a $1.5 trillion defense budget.
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