NCI Comments on Its FY 2006 Budget
Posted by Dusty Weaver on January 13th, 2006
Last month Congress passed and the President signed the fiscal year (FY) 2006 Labor-HHS approriations bill. The following article from the January 1, 2006 edition of the NCI Cancer Bulletin gives us NCI’s view on the effect of the reduced funding the bill provides:
FY 2006 NCI Budget Update
On December 30, President Bush signed the appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor/HHS and Related Agencies for fiscal year 2006. The bill includes $28.6 billion for NIH and $4.842 billion for NCI. However, there is a 1 percent across-the-board reduction that reduces the NIH and NCI budget amounts by $286 million and $48 million, respectively. The revised amount for NCI is $4.793 billion, which is $32 million less than what NCI obligated last year.
In a message to NCI staff, NCI Deputy Director Dr. John Niederhuber noted that “Over the past few years, we have become accustomed to adjusting to budget constraints and the current year is no different. It remains critical that we continue to engage in careful planning, monitoring, and reporting of progress made towards NCI’s challenge goal to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer. NCI’s Strategic Priorities are a clear signal of where we will be focusing our valuable resources in the year ahead and beyond.”
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