Bipartisan congressional negotiators have reached an agreement on a $1-trillion spending bill that would increase funding for the National Institutes of Health and reinstate year-round Pell Grants. Legislators in both the House of Representatives and the Senate are expected to vote on the package by the end of this week.
The bill’s increase for the NIH, amounting to $2 billion, is in sharp contrast to the budget blueprint laid out in March by the Trump administration. In the proposed "skinny budget," the administration called for an 18-percent cut in the NIH’s budget and a reorganization of its institutes and centers.
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