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ASHINGTON — Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, chaired a meeting at the White House on Monday that many research advocates viewed as a chance to oppose the $5.8 billion cut President Trump has proposed for the agency next year.
Yet the topic of possible reductions in federal research funding, by Collins’ account, did not come up.
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