Support doubling the NIH's $48 billion budget within five years instead of cutting it by 40 percent.

David McCormick · Pennsylvania · Republican

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Commitment kind: outcome. Promised action: Support increasing NIH funding rather than reducing it.. Promised outcome: The NIH budget is doubled from $48 billion within five years.. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. Senate floor remarks as U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania on NIH reform and investment.

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Evidence

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Each of these failures has a fix. First, rather than cut NIH by 40 percent, as OMB proposed last year, we should double the $48 billion budget within 5 years.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): McCormick made a Senate floor statement explicitly supporting the NIH budget-doubling commitment; this is concrete effort but not enactment.

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Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 151 (Wednesday, September 23, 2026)
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This Act (CR) continues government operations through December 11, 2026 at the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 enacted level.

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): As of the current refresh window, NIH was operating under a continuing resolution at FY2026 enacted levels, so the budget-doubling outcome had not been enacted and remains pending.

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NOT-OD-26-131: NIH Operates Under a Continuing Resolution
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Public state: pending As of 2026-10-10 · verified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved. unknown A for effort

McCormick made the verified Senate floor commitment on September 23, 2026 to double NIH's $48 billion budget within five years, but the verified budget evidence shows NIH was still operating under a continuing resolution at FY2026 enacted levels as of September 28, 2026. Because the promised five-year deadline has not expired as of October 10, 2026 and enactment has not been shown, the outcome is unresolved rather than delivered or never.

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