re: Trump budget: 20% cut to NIH

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Where does it say the 20% come off of research? Trim the fat.

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That was another answer from Mulkavey.

The money is to be allocated to the Directors of the departments. The WH is NOT micro-managing how the funds are used within each department.

Just a bunch of whining over fiscal responsibility from the left going on. If the budget cut corn subsidies by 20% they'd claim POTUS was trying to starve the entire world.

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the acceleration in drug discoveries disease treatemtn will slow down tremendously.

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What are you basing that claim on?

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He does most of the vaccines. I read that he started a vaccine shop back in the day when he and Lonald Vertage-Schwitzer were back at university. It was almost a "Tony Stark" kinda thing...huge advancements with basic tools.

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is it also true that his avatar pic is actually him though

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Now he is slashing Biomedical Research by 20%.

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If you would just be honest when you post a thread maybe, just maybe, other posters might have more respect for you.

Your own link says it is an 18% cut, not 20%, and the cut is for all of NIH funding, not just biomedical research funding.

As your own links explains much of the reduced funding is from consolidating the 27 (27!!!!) locations and institutes of the NIH and by reducing the funding for training people FROM OTHER COUNTRIES (!!!!) on how to do research. So research is not being cut on that part, just teaching citizens of other countries HOW TO DO RESEARCH.

Why can't those countries PAY the NIH for the training their people are receiving?

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The Trump administration is not the first to propose an NIH reorganization—in the late 1990s, former NIH Director Harold Varmus decried its sprawling array of disease-oriented institutes and called for a more streamlined structure.

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Try being truthful for a change.

Most people in research will agree that the NIH could stand some shakeup and reorganization. With that, a $6 billion cut will absolutely affect biomedical research funding. The NIH had to cut 5% or 1.5 billion in 2013. It absolutely had an affect on funding. FYI, in their 2016FY report $130 million was spent on buildings.

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by reducing the funding for training people FROM OTHER COUNTRIES (!!!!) on how to do research. So research is not being cut on that part, just teaching citizens of other countries HOW TO DO RESEARCH.

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My cousin actually does this for a living. She even tells us that much of what she does should be being taught at the university level. People are coming in from other countries with "college degrees" from their home countries and still don't know how to perform basic research in their own field. She even admits that it's a bullshite job.

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NIH

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Melt bitch

So, they have to learn how to budget like every working class American household not supported by the federal government?

Who needs it. It's just a bunch of leftist doctors wasting grant money on abortion research! Amirite!?!