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Shelley Moore Capito: “The president's budget came out with a 40% cut to NIH.”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Published February 5, 2026 | Video Starts at 12:29

Walk us through how you got to a pretty different end result. Well, it basically, I think we were all stunned when we saw that The president's budget came out with a 40% cut to NIH. And then when asked about it, the president says, I'm all for biomedical research. I want to move science as quickly as I can. (12:29–12:34)

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Asserts that the President's budget proposed a 40% cut to the NIH.

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