Trump aims to double PDUFA fees and cut 20% from NIH

17 March 2017
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US President Donald Trump has released a budget ‘blueprint’ for 2018 that could have a major impact on the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries in America.

The President’s ‘skinny budget’, essentially a wish list of spending priorities for legislators to consider, covers about a third of national spending, or $1.5 trillion.

The lightweight document, historically short at only 53 pages, urges major changes to the way the US Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are funded.

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