A top Republican appropriator is opposing the Trump administration’s move to reduce funding for National Institutes of Health grants, calling the action “poorly conceived.”
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, criticized Monday the agency’s move to cap “indirect costs” for funds given to universities to facilitate medical research projects to 15%. The funding—covering what’s known as facilities and administrative costs—is used to support research institutions for expenditures from maintenance and security of a building to library services. The NIH announced Friday that it would impose the cap, which it said is a significant decrease from what ...