The White House budget would cut the National Institutes of Health by 18 percent, a move that - if it were to go into effect - would have ramifications well beyond government. A significant percentage of its budget is awarded each year in highly competitive grants to about 300,000 researchers tackling such diseases as cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, as well as the traumatic brain injuries suffered by soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. (With this budget, you can forget Joe Biden's "cancer moonshot" and the notion that America will be first to find a cure.)