As Trump’s second term nears, Republican support for NIH is at a low point

By stonewalling GOP in the House, Biden’s HHS officials eroded bipartisan support for biomedical research

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The Biden administration has left NIH in a weakened state, intensifying politicization of science on Capitol Hill and eroding the bipartisan support the government’s premier biomedical research agency has traditionally enjoyed.

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Paul Goldberg
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