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Senator aims to bust cap on federal spending

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Appropriations committee chair warns cap on 2025 spending “will stifle” biomedical and other research

Senator Patty Murray, the Democrat chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has called on her fellow politicians to break the previously agreed cap on 2025 federal spending in order to increase investment in activities including research.

In a fact sheet she released on 18 June and comments she made in the Senate, Murray warned that the maximum 1 per cent increase in federal non-defence spending for 2025 agreed by Congress last year would provide “grossly inadequate” investment.

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