San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer said Wednesday that she was "very excited" to have bipartisan support for a resolution opposing a proposed 40% budget cut at the National Institutes of Health.

On Tuesday, supervisors voted 4-0 in favor of Lawson-Remer's proposal, which she first announced May 19. In the resolution, the county "expresses concern regarding recent federal actions towards the National Institute of Health that negatively impact our biomedical sector and calls for increased federal funding for the National Institutes of Health, including funding state- of-the-art scientific infrastructure at sustainable levels, in order to advance San Diego's biomedical leadership and drive our regional innovation economy."

According to Lawson-Remer, the board's vice chair:

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