Washington, Sept. 21 -- Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman issued the following press release:
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that White House officials were attempting to make massive cuts to research grants at the National Institutes of Health, conflicting with months of denials from NIH officials. Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), who sits on the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education subcommittee, released the following statement:
Today, we learned that the White House is trying to cancel funding that "does not conform to Trump's political agenda."
Over the last year and a half, the NIH director and his sub-directors have assured my colleagues and me that politics would be kept out of decisions for health ...