Democratic lawmakers are calling for the immediate termination of an interagency agreement that would give the Department of Defense access to billions of dollars that Congress appropriated to the National Institutes of Health for infectious disease research.
The agreement has not been finalized. It was discovered by Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, and would run for ten years, moving money from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to military biodefense programs, according to reporting by the journal Nature.
