Donald Trump honored a young cancer patient while addressing a joint session of Congress but seems not to have recognized the irony of doing so after he cut cancer research funds. One of Trump’s very first moves in office was to pursue considerable cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH),

Democrats have taken aim at Donald Trump after he honored a cancer-stricken child in his joint session of Congress, accusing the president of using the boy as a “political pawn” while his administration cuts funding for cancer research.

President Donald Trump honored and applauded a young cancer survivor during his recent joint address to Congress despite his numerous attempts to cut funding for healthcare, including pediatric cancer research.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health answered sharp questions in a confirmation hearing Wednesday about his views on vaccines, research funding and the role scientists should play in a pandemic.

Republicans who control the Senate have largely embraced the nomination, arguing that Bhattacharya's skepticism of federal pandemic policies reflects the need for reform at the NIH. All of Trump's high-level nominations have been confirmed,

President Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health pledges to restore public trust in science and medicine at a Senate panel Wednesday.

The president's State of the Union address included a line designed to go viral in the right-wing misinformation machine

There were so many mind-numbing utterances squeezed into President Donald Trump‘s feature-length address to Congress on Tuesday night — which has single-handedly left approximately 50% of Americans in a bad mood for the rest of the week — that somehow it took us a minute to pick up on perhaps his strangest claim of the lot.