President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget for 2026 slashes funds for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $17.97 billion. The 2026 blueprint was shared Friday (PDF) and allows the ...

The White House on Friday revealed President Trump’s budget request for fiscal 2026 ... reduction for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a $674 million reduction for the Centers for ...

Like many government institutions, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) faces big budget cuts and a dramatic restructuring under President Donald Trump. The agency has had a hand in many of the ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee highlighted this week the harms of potential Trump administration cuts to the National Institutes of Health in an attempt to stop ...

Previous plans floated by Republican members of Congress have proposed restructuring the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into 15 revised ones. The Office of Management and Budget proposal ...

People like my family members and me. NIH is the single largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, with an annual budget of some $47 billion, awarding over 60,000 research grants a ...

President Trump’s “skinny budget” request for fiscal year 2026 includes massive cuts to federal health agencies, including a quarter of the Department of Health and Human Services’(HHS ...

The institutes’ financial health has been in limbo for several months now. Congress failed to pass a 2003 NIH budget before adjourning last year. Instead, lawmakers agreed to continue agency funding ...

Key proposed changes Cut the NIH budget by about 40 percent, to $27 billion. The proposal outlines a major consolidation and reorganization of the institutes focused on disease research.

The May 2 layoffs were delivered the same day Trump’s skinny budget proposal was announced. The 2026 plan slashes funds for NIH by $17.97 billion, a nearly 40% reduction from the year before.