As part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, Congress passed the sequester cuts, imposing across-the-board reductions on several agencies. The National Institutes of Health lost five percent of their budget, cutting $1.6 billion in funding. Pam Miller of the American Heart Association said those cuts are going to have some negative effects on research and other functions.

“That’s just devastating in terms of funding for research grants and just everything that goes into things related to research,” she said. “It’s the second-lowest funding since 2000.”

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