Tammy Baldwin: “This forward funding scheme means that the cuts are even…”

“Your budget requests an $18 billion cut for NIH and that's bad enough. But be honest with Congress and the American people. This forward funding scheme means that the cuts are even deeper. It means billions will effectively be put in escrow and won't actually be spent on research for a number of years to come.” (02:40–02:46)

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