Sen­a­tors grill Califf over pro­posed FDA bud­get as com­mis­sion­er lays out 2023 pri­or­i­ties

FDA com­mis­sion­er Robert Califf faced a litany of ques­tions from sen­a­tors Thurs­day morn­ing over sev­er­al as­pects of Pres­i­dent Biden’s 2023 bud­get for the FDA, as the White House looks to in­crease the bud­get by 34% to $8.4 bil­lion.

The hear­ing brought Califf, who re­turned to the hot seat at the FDA in Feb­ru­ary, in front of the Sub­com­mit­tee on Agri­cul­ture, Rur­al De­vel­op­ment, Food and Drug Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Re­lat­ed Agen­cies on Thurs­day. He stressed the im­por­tance of tech­nol­o­gy and sci­en­tif­ic in­fra­struc­ture to car­ry out its du­ties.

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