And I'm really grateful to the work with Congress and the administration to make sure that that's possible. Well, you didn't really answer the question, and I know why. 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. (01:56–02:05)
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Reiterates that NIH is being asked to cut $6 billion to increase defense spending.
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