Tammy Baldwin: “Private philanthropy [cannot fill the funding gap] if…”

“The survival rate for even stage three, stage four cancers are much, much longer. That's because of what we have publicly invested in the nih. And so I don't see Private philanthropy [cannot fill the funding gap] if somehow Donald Trump were to be successful and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Were to be successful in slashing the NIH budget moving forward. But I also do believe that we will have bipartisan success, not on restoring funding for all the things Trump wants to cut, but with nih, given its history of broad bipartisan support, I think we'll be able to restore those proposed cuts.” (02:07–02:24)

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