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Axios
21-05-2025
- Business
- Axios
Bayer CEO says 2025 key for future of Roundup in U.S.
Bayer is fighting to keep the popular agricultural herbicide Roundup available for farmers in the U.S., but warned it could "reach the end of the road" and pull out of the market amid mounting challenges, CEO Bill Anderson said at an Axios event on Wednesday night. Why it matters: Anderson said the chemical, known as glypohsate, has been repeatedly found safe and is "table stakes" for feeding the world. "Glyphosate combined with GMO crops is why we can feed 8 billion people in the world," Anderson said. "When I was a child, we struggled to feed 3.5 billion people in the world." Friction point: A report from the Make American Healthy Again Commission is anticipated Thursday about the causes of chronic disease in America, which is expected to target glyphosate and other agricultural chemicals. Between the lines: Bayer produces 40% of the world's supply of glyphosate in the U.S. and exports much of it, Anderson said. "If we go out, the glyphosate will still be there. It just won't be produced in America, and it puts it puts American consumers at the mercy of foreign nations." Where it stands: The company has a petition with the Supreme Court seeking a review of a Missouri Supreme Court ruling in a personal injury case, which paved the way for the high court to consider whether federal law preempts state-based failure-to-warn claims. Bayer is backing the Agricultural Labeling Uniformity Act at the federal level, as well as pushing for state legislatures to address "regulatory ambiguity" that has left it vulnerable to a litany of lawsuits over glyphosate since acquiring Monsanto, the producer of Roundup, in 2018.
The Hill
02-05-2025
- Health
- The Hill
Budget would slash HHS, NIH funding
That doesn't include coverage programs like Medicare and Medicaid. The Trump administration said the cuts were justified because they eliminated programs and agencies considered duplicative, 'woke,' unnecessary or a failure by the previous administration. The proposal calls for the elimination of funding for programs like the National Institute on Minority and Health Disparities, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. White House budget requests are often aspirational documents. They give a view of the administration's priorities but usually differ from what Congress inevitably adopts. However, Republicans in Congress have been deferential to Trump. Overall, the budget seeks to cut $33.3 billion in funding for HHS — which amounts to 26.6 percent reduction compared to the enacted level for fiscal year 2025. This reduction includes: A $3.6 billion cut to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention An $18 billion reduction for the National Institutes of Health, the largest proposed cut in the budget A $674 million reduction for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Program Management A $240 million reduction for the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response Hospital Preparedness Program. There is only one health program that gains any discretionary funding: $500 million for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's Make American Healthy Again Commission, which was created by an executive order earlier this year. These funds would allow 'allow the Secretary to tackle nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety across HHS,' according to the document. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she has 'serious objections' to parts of the request, including cuts to biomedical research.
