House draft 2022 spending bill: $86M less for FDA than what Biden requested
The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday evening unveiled its draft legislation to fund the FDA for next year, revealing an increase of $257 million for the agency’s non-user fee funds, which is $86 million less than what President Biden called for FDA.
Even for an agency that will see total funding, including user fees, of about $6.3 billion, that $86 million is a large sum that could do a lot to hire new expertise, update infrastructure and pursue other agency objectives that fell by the wayside during the pandemic.
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