American Cures Act 2024-07-31 Introduced in Senate American Cures Act

This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research.

The bill provides specified funding for

  • the National Institutes of Health,
  • the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
  • the Department of Defense health program, and
  • the Department of Veterans Affairs medical and prosthetics research program.

The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.

It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010 and the Senate PAYGO rule.

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