NIH to use part of its budget to pay for Department of Defense research
Money would ostensibly fund research the NIH leadership said it no longer wanted.
Money would ostensibly fund research the NIH leadership said it no longer wanted.
The short version
- Patty Murray (D-Wash.), to accuse the parties of simply using the agreement as a way to transfer money to the Pentagon without congressional approval.
- Others are suggesting that this is part of a longer-term effort to shift any biosecurity research out of the NIH and into the Pentagon.
- Very little of this makes any sense, and the agreement itself is remarkably vague, so it will be difficult to determine its consequences until spending data becomes available.
What happened
That’s assuming future Congresses don’t simply prohibit this sort of spending, something that its recent actions have suggested it might be willing to do. Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years.
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