"President Trump's 2018 budget request to Congress seeks massive cuts
in spending on health programs, including medical research, disease
prevention programs and health insurance for children of the working
poor.
The National Cancer Institute would be hit with a $1 billion cut compared to its 2017 budget."
Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, released the White House plan for federal spending by saying that the Trump administration was determined to use the budget to rework the welfare system. That is clearly the prerogative of the Trump administration, but everyone gets sick, everyone benefits from research, all of us need the research dollars that are targeted, all of us benefit from the community health programs. If we don't have what boils down to a neutral observer in the dollars, what we end up getting is research funded by those who have a reason to game the system.
BTW, I always think of Mick Mulvaney as an angry leprechaun.
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