Congress Defies Trump, Gives Big Raise to NIH Medical Research

Congress grants the National Institutes of Health a $2 billion raise.

from NBC News

The budget agreement, finalized in the wee hours of Monday morning, also defies Trump’s demand for cuts to NASA’s earth science program, which the administration had targeted as part of a wider promise to cut climate change research. And it provides $103 million to fight the opioid abuse epidemic — an area of rare bipartisan agreement that even Trump supports.

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