Before the federal government shut down for 43 days while President Donald Trump and members of Congress wrangled over whether a stopgap spending bill should extend Obamacare tax credits set to expire December 31, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives were on their way toward agreeing on the outlines of a budget for the NIH covering the federal fiscal year that began October 1.
Trump fired the first spending salvo in May when he submitted a proposed budget for FY 2026 that chopped NIH funding by nearly 40% (39.3%) to $29.295 billion—about $27.5 billion from the $48.301 billion set aside for the agency in FY 2025. It should not have been surprising, since during his first term in 2017, Trump proposed a budget for FY 2018 that cut the NIH share by 22%—only to see Congress ultimately approve a nine percent funding increase.
This summer, as in 2017, appropriations…
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