WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee that funds the National Institute of Health (NIH), blasted the Trump Administration after the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that it was diverting billions of dollars Congress specifically provided for lifesaving medical research at NIH to fund Pentagon priorities instead.
"Donald Trump's illegal war of choice in Iran is costing Americans billions of dollars in taxpayer funding and higher costs, and now he is raiding lifesaving medical research to find even more money for his out-of-control D...