Finstad, Brad

House of Representatives · Minnesota · Rank #469 of 554

Score

-$1.8T

Employee Performance Review

Budget influence review.

Finstad, Brad is a public employee. This review tracks the federal budget this office backed instead of pretending congressional votes are just vibes. At 929 dollars per patient, the military dollars this office backed could have funded pragmatic trials for about 1.9B patients.

Military $ Backed

$1.8T

Bills this office backed that expand military spending

Clinical Trials $

Bills this office backed that include clinical trial funding

Military : Medicine

∞

Higher means more military than medicine

Score

-$1.8T

Clinical trial spending minus military spending. Everyone is negative.

destroying everything

$1.8T

Testing Medicines $ Voted For

3.3% of the NIH budget actually tests which medicines work

orphan manufacturing : medicines ratio

∞

System average: 1,094:1

Spending Scale (vs All Politicians)

limb removal services$1.8T

Testing Medicines$0

Scaled to the same axis as military spending — the bar is barely visible because clinical trials get a fraction of the funding

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Vote Record

Voted YEA

NDAA FY2023 ($858B)$858B

Israel Security Supplemental ($14.3B)$14B

Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental ($8.1B)$8B

NDAA FY2025 ($895B)$895B

Voted NAY

Omnibus FY2023 — Military ($858B)$858B

Omnibus FY2023 — NIH ($47.5B)$48B

NDAA FY2024 ($886B)$886B

Ukraine Security Supplemental ($60.8B)$61B

Omnibus FY2024 — Military ($886B)$886B

Omnibus FY2024 — NIH ($47.3B)$47B

How We Calculate

Military $

Military $ = Σ (bill amount for each YEA vote on NDAA, supplementals, or omnibus military portion)

NDAA and supplementals count at face value. Omnibus bills count only the military appropriation (~$858–886B/yr).

Clinical Trials $

Trials $ = NIH budget × 0.033

Only 3.3% of the NIH budget funds clinical trials ($1.56B of $47.3B). The other 96.7% is basic research, overhead, and administration. Source: JAMA.

Score

Score = Clinical Trials $ − Military $

Positive = net investment in medicine. Negative = net investment in military. Everyone is negative.

Ratio

Ratio = Military $ ÷ Clinical Trials $

Higher = worse. ∞ means the politician voted for military spending but never voted for any bill containing clinical trial funding.

The Maths

Finstad, Brad voted for $1.8T in organized suffering and zero dollars finding out which medicines work.

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How We Calculate

Military $

Military $ = Σ (bill amount for each YEA vote on NDAA, supplementals, or omnibus military portion)

NDAA and supplementals count at face value. Omnibus bills count only the military appropriation (~$858–886B/yr).

Clinical Trials $

Trials $ = NIH budget × 0.033

Only 3.3% of the NIH budget funds clinical trials ($1.56B of $47.3B). The other 96.7% is basic research, overhead, and administration. Source: JAMA.

Score

Score = Clinical Trials $ − Military $

Positive = net investment in medicine. Negative = net investment in military. Everyone is negative.

Ratio

Ratio = Military $ ÷ Clinical Trials $

Higher = worse. ∞ means the politician voted for military spending but never voted for any bill containing clinical trial funding.