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Back to the Middle Ages
The current administration under the direction of Trumph has published a new budget proposal for 2018 discretionary spending. It does not take a Ph.D. in economics to realize that aside from a huge 54 billion dollar increase to the military … Continue reading
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Tagged budget, cuts, National Institutes of Health, NIH, president, research, Trump
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