GOP senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funding

Senate Republicans urge White House to release appropriated NIH funds

The funding was approved in Congress' stopgap government funding package that was passed and signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year.

14 Republican senators break ranks to sound alarm on Trump’s dangerous scheme that could put Americans at risk

Fourteen Republican senators have written an urgent letter to the White House demanding the release of delayed National Institutes of Health funding. The senators are concerned about what they call “the slow disbursement rate” of NIH money that Congress approved in a March spending bill signed by President Donald Trump. Senator Katie Britt of Alabama is leading this effort. She chairs the Senate Appropriations homeland subcommittee and organized…

GOP senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funding

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and 13 other Senate Republicans are urging the Trump administration to release National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding that has been held up for months. The GOP senators warned in a letter to White House budget chief Russell Vought that the “slow disbursement of funds” that Congress appropriated in March “risks undermining critical research and the thousands of American jobs it supports.” “Suspension of these approp…