Advocacy

​​​​​​​Beyond stories about the Senate’s health care bill, which run aplenty these days, we have seen more developments across our industry, including the president continuing to solidify members of his administration and the National Institutes of Health announcing a new initiative.

This blog is the second in a two-part series on the president’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal.

The president's budget request is typically described by journalists and political pundits as "dead on arrival" regardless of who is in charge of what branch of government. Congress takes their constitutional "power of the purse" very seriously, and while lawmakers do take the president's request into consideration, they take pride in making their own funding decisions...

This advocacy update will center on federally funded research at the forces at play.