The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted for a $400 million increase in the NIH budget. Pictured here are committee Vice Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

You know that whole checks and balances thing laid out by the U.S. Constitution? It’s where Congress is not supposed to automatically agree with what the Executive Branch wants to do. Well, on Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee essentially checked what U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to do to the National Institutes of Health and showed that it doesn’t quite agree. In its budget for the U.S. government’s 2026 fiscal year, the Trump Administ

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