President Obama’s FY 2014 budget proposal would make FDA increasingly reliant on user fees, which are slated to make up close to two-thirds of the agency’s $1.3 billion in human drugs program spending, up from just over 50% of spending in FY 2012 – a shift driven by both the growth of user fee programs and cuts to taxpayer funding.
President Obama’s 2014 budget cuts $11.9 million in human drug budget authority with $8.4 million coming from CDER and $3.5...