The Trump Administration recently released its budget for fiscal year 2026, which proposes cutting NIH funding by nearly 40% and consolidating the agency’s 27 institutes into five.
AGA is working on two fronts to support research, and you can help.
1) Funding
In addition to the $2.4M in grants just awarded through the AGA Research Foundation, AGA invested $400,000 in 10 additional pilot research awards in response to threats to federal funding.
Applications are open.
2) Advocacy
The administration’s alarming budget proposal could devastate GI research.
AGA meets regularly with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle. While we hear bipartisan support for research, you must help raise the alarm with your lawmakers and share the real-world impacts of funding cuts.
Take action: write a personalized letter to your member of Congress using our advocacy platform to explain how NIH cuts would impact your work.
Help AGA better advocate for the GI community in meetings on Capitol Hill. Share your story about how proposed budget cuts and changes to the NIH funding model would impact your research.
Take a deeper dive
Here are more details about how AGA is working to protect NIH research funding:
- AGA submitted testimony to the Senate Committee on Appropriations hearing detailing NIH’s instrumental role in advancing digestive health and calling for sustained funding.
AGA worked closely with our congressional champions, including Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), to educate about the need to protect research.
This resulted in congressional champions speaking out against the cuts and making inquiries about indirect costs caps during the May hearing with the Secretary for Health and Human Services.
- AGA signed the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research’s letter calling for at least $51.303 billion in NIH funding for fiscal year 2026
- AGA President Maria T. Abreu, MD, AGAF co-signed a letter to NIH about the indirect cost policy along with other physicians.
- AGA joined 600 organizations in signing Research!America’s letter in support of federally funded research
