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Republicans buck Trump on NIH cuts

By Robert King
Published March 27, 2017 4:01am ET
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Republicans buck Trump on NIH cuts
"You don't pretend to balance the budget by cutting life-saving biomedical research when the real cause of the federal debt is runaway entitlement spending," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. | shironosov

Congressional Republicans are ready to buck President Trump’s plan to slash the National Institutes of Health’s funding, complicating the president’s budget goals.

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