President Obama’s final budget proposal to Congress asks for big increases across the board in medical research and public health, an attempt to keep up new momentum for supporting disease research as well as to deal with the emerging threat of the Zika virus.
For the second year in a row, Obama wants a significant increase for the National Institutes of Health. He wants to boost the agency’s budget to $33.1 billion, from the current $32 billion — enough to pay for 10,000 new medical research grants, according to the White House.
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