{"id":40397,"date":"2025-05-01T22:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/we-need-a-surgical-approach-not-a-sledgehammer-sen-collins-pushes-back-on-proposed-nih-cuts\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T22:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T22:11:59","slug":"we-need-a-surgical-approach-not-a-sledgehammer-sen-collins-pushes-back-on-proposed-nih-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/we-need-a-surgical-approach-not-a-sledgehammer-sen-collins-pushes-back-on-proposed-nih-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need a surgical approach, not a sledgehammer\u2019: Sen. Collins pushes back on proposed NIH cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) tells NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Julie Tsirkin lawmakers have a \u201cgreat deal of ability to push back\u201d against the Trump administration\u2019s proposed funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health. One mother, Emily Stenson, testifies on Capitol Hill as to why the funding was critical for her daughter Charlie as she fought stage four germ cell cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) tells NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Julie Tsirkin lawmakers have a \u201cgreat deal of ability to push back\u201d against the Trump administration\u2019s proposed funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health. One mother, Emily Stenson, testifies on Capitol Hill as to why the funding was critical for her daughter Charlie as &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018We need a surgical approach, not a sledgehammer\u2019: Sen. Collins pushes back on proposed NIH cuts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/we-need-a-surgical-approach-not-a-sledgehammer-sen-collins-pushes-back-on-proposed-nih-cuts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018We need a surgical approach, not a sledgehammer\u2019: Sen. Collins pushes back on proposed NIH cuts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}