Covid changed Newt Gingrich's mind about health research funding

Key Facts

• Rewind to the late 1990s, and it was a Gingrich-led Congress that passed funding increases leading to a doubling of the National Institutes of Health’s budget, upping it by 14 to 16 percent each year for half a decade.
• The proposed budget cut is a “blow to the mission of the National Institutes of Health,” according to United For Medical Research, a coalition of research institutions, health and patient advocates and companies that advocates for increased NIH funding.
• “I think that NIH is going to remain a bipartisan priority and that the champions are still strong,” she said, adding, “this was actually a post-pandemic wave of anger more than a change in direction.”
• “The House is looking for places to cut spending and very few things are protected in that environment,” said Blunt, who retired at the end of the last Congress.

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