Congressional appropriators pushed back on the Trump administration’s attempted overhaul of how the National Institutes of Health disperses research funding in the Labor-HHS FY26 appropriations bill that was released Tuesday.
Lawmakers included language in the funding bill that limits how much the Trump administration can disperse in the first year of a multi-year grant. NIH grants often disperse funds out year by year.
The Trump administration and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought wanted to issue more grants that are “forward-funding” or disperse all the grant money in the first year. But the appropriations bill states that the ...