WASHINGTON, March 19 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Co-Chair of the Senate National Institutes of Health (NIH) Caucus, today met with National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director Dr. Anthony Letai to discuss the future of cancer research as President Trump and Health and Human Services' Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. push forward with efforts to slash funding, delay grant awards, and otherwise dismantle our nation's critical medical research infrastructure.
The Trump Administration has frozen, delayed, or cancelled billions in NIH grant funding; fired thousands of NIH staffers; and, last year, proposed a budget that w...