FACT CHECK: Bush Has Cut Funding For Cancer Research

thinkprogress.org — [VIDEO] Health officials reported that cancer deaths in the U.S. dropped for the second year in a row. Bush teed off this news with a speech at NIH, touting the increased funding for cancer research since 2001. But in reality, "most of that occurred in those early years under a Clinton initiative. The budget was actually cut last year." Jan 18, 2007 View in Crawl 4