Apr. 3 at 9:46 PM
$EBS Trump's FY '27 budget request to Congress dropped.
This is his opening bargaining position for ASPR accounts.
He's keeping SNS flat, wanting to cut Project Bioshield funding, and plays a sleight of hand trick with BARDA that looks like a cut but is not.
BARDA's cuts are salaries moving to an operations account, making the budget authority of BARDA a pure play for pipeline development costs only.
This is far less draconian compared to FY '26 that actually leaked last year and caused people to have seizures. As per usual, Congress will deny this request, like it always does.
