WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala. has found herself at the center of key spending fights between the White House and Congress as the Trump administration has frozen and delayed federal funding that is central to Alabama institutions.

Most recently, Britt intervened to release funds for education and for the National Institutes of Health.

“When you’re looking at NIH, it is my belief, where there are life-saving and life-changing research, we need to see that through to fruition,” Britt told Alabama Daily News in an interview. “This is about cures.”

In a letter to the White House budget office on July 25, Britt led 13 other GOP senators to urge the administration to fully implement NIH funding appropriated in the fiscal year 2025 continuing resolution.

“Suspension of these app

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