National Institutes of Health (NIH) (–$5 billion). NIH broke the trust of the American people with wasteful spending, misleading information, risky research, and the promotion of dangerous ideologies that undermine public health. At the program level, the Budget requests $41 billion for NIH research and proposes reforms to NIH, including the elimination of the following Institutes or Centers (IC): National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, which is replete with DEI expenditures, such as research studying how “structural racism” impacts social connectedness among “gender minority people of color” and comparing sexually transmitted infections in “transgender women” Fogarty International Center (FIC), which has funded Master’s degree programs in foreign countries, such as Serbia and India, at the expense of Americans. FIC has also wasted money by surveying how Buddhism creates “HIV-stigma” in Thailand and evaluating “Friendship Benches” for women who use methamphetamine in Vietnam; and National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, which has funded research on “racial and ethnic disparities” in back pain therapies and on “mindfulness-based intervention” on HIV risk and “mental and sexual health” among “young men who have sex with men.”
Here's the full Trump-Vought FY27 budget proposal. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
It lists NIH as "-$5 billion" with a top line budget of $41B.
The math doesn't math tho bc FY26 budget was $48.7, making $41B a $7.7B (not $5B) cut.
Also calls to eliminate NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH.
