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Budget reruns

The 2027 budget that the Trump administration released on Friday is in many ways a repeat of last year’s proposal: It includes deep cuts to the National Institutes of Health, the elimination of a health research agency, and the creation of a new agency devoted to chronic diseases called the Administration for a Healthy America.

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