Congress controls the purse. Terminate the Pentagon-NIH interagency agreement immediately and block any transfer of funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to the Department of Defense. This secretive deal — signed without notifying lawmakers or the public — would hand the Pentagon access to billions of dollars Congress appropriated for research on HIV, tuberculosis, influenza, and other deadly diseases.
The Pentagon is facing a cash shortfall because of Trump's war of choice with Iran, which has already cost $37.5 billion by the administration's own likely undercounted figures. That is not the American people's problem to solve by gutting biomedical research. DoD already has congressionally funded programs for medical countermeasures — it does not need NIH's money. Demand a full accounting of how this deal was developed, who authorized it, and exactly how much taxpayer money the administration is trying to move. Then shut it down.
First sent on September 4 by Progressive Action
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