By Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will testify Tuesday morning before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Bhattacharya has overseen deep cuts to health care research, as the NIH provides billions to the country’s research universities, which are the driving force of American medical innovation.
Hundreds of NIH employees on Monday released the “Bethesda Declaration” expressing their concern over some $12 billion in cuts to research funding and the firing of “essential” agency employees.
Bhattacharya in a thread on X said the declaration had “some fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions NIH has taken in recent months.”
Watch the hearing live on Tuesday starting at 10 a.m. EST.