14. Department of Health and Human Services · Major · Needs Congress
Block grant the NIH grants budget to the states
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“Congress should consider block granting NIH’s grants budget to states to fund their own scientific research.”
What has happened
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No bill block-granting NIH's extramural budget to the States has been introduced, and NIH's grant-making machinery is unchanged in structure. The NIH bills before the 119th Congress are reform and integrity measures, all still in committee.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative searches run 2026-08-27: bill titles among those we keep and search, from congress.gov, mentioning the National Institutes of Health or NIH — 9 hits, none a block grant (S. 664 / H.R. 1497 NIH Reform Act, S. 3254 / H.R. 6238 NIH IMPROVE Act, H.R. 6867 / S. 3564 NIH Clinical Trial Integrity Act, S. 5295 NIH Mentorship Modernization Act, S.Res. 93, H.Res. 1079); bill titles mentioning “block grant” — 9 hits, all CDBG, CSBG, energy, TANF or substance-use block grants. Federal Register full-text “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” (HHS, since 2025-01-20) — 0 documents.
- The administration’s FY 2026 and FY 2027 budgets proposed consolidating NIH’s Institutes and Centers rather than block-granting the research budget; the budget documents live on hhs.gov, which refused to open for us, and are leads, not Evidence.
- Action
- transfer
- Object
- NIH grants budget
- ID
- 1250