Trump wants to cut NIH. What future medicines will your family lose?

Published September 7, 2026 8:00am ET



The treatment your spouse, parent, or child may need 10 or 15 years from now might not exist today. Whether it eventually does could depend on biomedical research being funded now.

That is what is ultimately at stake in President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2027 proposal for the National Institutes of Health.

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