The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration is scheduled to consider an appropriations bill to fund the Department of Agriculture, FDA, and other related agencies for FY2024. The bill includes several provisions that would keep FDA from fulfilling its duty to protect public health and threaten its efforts to combat the harmful impacts of tobacco.
The Government Accountability Office, an independent, non-partisan congressional watchdog agency, found that NIH violated the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 when it cancelled nearly 2,000 research grants in an effort to comply with several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, including “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing” (The Cancer Letter, Jan 24, 2025).
