WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators on Thursday approved a plan that would increase spending for the National Institutes of Health by $2 billion and maintain nearly $300 million in grants for family planning programs that a House committee had sought to eliminate.
The plan would also fund the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration by $387 million more than the amount recommended by President Trump’s budget blueprint.
The bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee is perhaps a best-case scenario for boosters of the NIH, family planning advocates, and those fighting the opioid crisis.
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