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 the letter with thirteen of her Republican colleagues. The letter was sent on Friday to White House Budget Chief Russ Vought, asking his Office of Management and Budget to fully carry out the government funding package from earlier this year.
