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Susan Collins: “The Trump administration announced that they were going to…”

Featuring: Susan Collins, Republican | U.S. Senate Maine

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2025 WMIF | Fireside Chat with Senator Susan Collins

Published | Video Starts at 03:38

It has been fascinating to talk with your researchers, your clinicians, your academic professors, and to see the tech hub in back of us, which was absolutely extraordinary. So thank you for the invitation to join you this morning. When The Trump administration announced that they were going to cut the NIH budget by an astonishing 41%. 41%. That was very alarming to me. I've always been a very strong supporter of biomedical research. (03:38–03:52)

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Asserts that the Trump administration planned a 41% cut to the NIH budget.

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