Not everybody agrees

From the New York Times:

Plan to Cut Funding for Biomedical Research Hits Opposition in Congress

• Some Democrats and some Republicans think the cuts to NIH are misguided;
• some are proud that NIH funding has substantially increased;
• could have "catastrophic results" for patients and researchers;
• one of the big issues is "indirect costs" in grants (which has been true for decades). 

Quote:

"Arthur Bienenstock, an emeritus professor at Stanford and an expert on science policy, said the proposal made him worry about the future of research.

“The net impact would be a significant decline in biomedical research, and its centralization in a small number of universities,” he said. “Research would shift away from public universities and less well-endowed private universities, toward well-endowed private universities like Harvard and Stanford.”