Trump turns to critic of COVID mandates to run NIH

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : While the NIH has historically enjoyed bipartisan support, Trump proposed cutting the agency's budget during his first term.
60% : The NIH is the world's largest public funder of biomedical research.
58% : Many proponents of biomedical research agree that some changes in grantmaking could be warranted and helpful.
55% : Bhattacharya, a physician and health economist whose nomination requires Senate confirmation, would take charge of an agency that employs more than 18,000 workers and funds nearly $48 billion in scientific research through nearly 50,000 grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 universities, medical schools and other institutions.
45% : Trump wrote in a statement making the announcement.

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