Thursday’s Senate Appropriations Committee hearing was intended to focus on President Trump’s proposed budget for the National Institutes of Health’s fiscal year 2027 budget.
Instead, many of the senator’s questions for NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and the five institute directors who joined him focused on more immediate concerns: a leadership vacuum at the agency’s sprawling infectious disease institute amid two outbreaks, the slow pace of funding over the course of the current fiscal year, and the impact of various Trump administration policies on the research community.
Here are three questions that were raised during the hearing:
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