President Trump’s proposed 2026 budget sought to cut $18 billion in funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — a move that threatened medical research across the country. Instead of passing those cuts, however, the Senate Appropriations Committee actually increased funding to the NIH by about $400 million in a bipartisan vote.
The $400 million increase includes an allocation of $150m for cancer and another $100m for Alzheimer’s. The committee also maintained current funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at $9.1 billion.
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Since Trump’s return to the White House, the NIH has cut or frozen around $4 billion in medical grants and research awards, with much larger cuts scheduled for 2026.
The appropriations bills signal broad congressional opposition to the administration’s NIH cuts, although final budgets remain pending.
