American Cures Act
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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.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S5685)
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4879: American Cures Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-4879/
"S. 4879: American Cures Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-4879/.
S. 4879, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-4879/.
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