Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s proposal slashes the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NIH</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>budget</span></a> to $27B from ~$48B. The budget doc delivers a duplicitous rebuke to NIH, saying: “NIH has broken the trust of the American people w/wasteful spending, misleading information, risky research & the promotion of dangerous ideologies that undermine public health.” [written from Bizarro World]</p><p>The budget purports to refocus the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/infectious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infectious</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/diseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diseases</span></a>, but slashes funding for viral <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/hepatitis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hepatitis</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HIV</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/STDs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STDs</span></a>, lumping them into a single program at $300M.</p>