Senate Holds Hearings on NIH and ED Funding
Published June 16, 2025
By AACOM Government Relations
OME Advocate
- On June 10, 2025, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, testified during a Senate subcommittee hearing on the NIH FY26 budget request.
- Director Bhattacharya defended the request and its aim to streamline research, focus on preventing cancer deaths and better understand childhood diseases.
- On June 3, 2025, ED Secretary Linda McMahon testified during another Senate subcommittee hearing on the ED FY26 budget request.
- Secretary McMahon outlined a plan to reduce ED’s discretionary budget to streamline operations and transfer certain federal functions to other agencies, like moving student loan borrowing to the Small Business Administration (SBA).