Senate Passes Budget Increases for NIH, Research Initiatives

The U.S. Senate has approved a budget bill for the 2019 fiscal year starting on October 1 that will increase spending for the NIH by 5.4% or $2 billion, to $39.1 billion.By an 85-7 vote, the Senate passed H.R. 6157 , an $854 billion “minibus” spending bill for FY 2019 that combined what had been separate measures for the Labor-Health and Human Services portion of the budget ( S. 3158 ) and the Department of Defense ( S. 3159 ). The minibus advances to the U.S. House of Representative