{"id":21943,"date":"2025-02-10T20:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21943"},"modified":"2025-02-10T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T21:24:07","slug":"22-states-sue-to-block-trump-cuts-to-medical-research-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21943","title":{"rendered":"22 States Sue to Block Trump Cuts to Medical Research Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nearly two dozen states sued the Trump administration and the National Institutes of Health on Monday to block a $4 billion cut<\/a> to research funding that scientists say would cost thousands of jobs and eviscerate studies into treatments for cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s, heart disease and a host of other ailments.<\/p>\n

The funding cuts were to take effect Monday. The attorneys general of Massachusetts and 21 other states filed the suit, arguing the Trump administration\u2019s plan to slash overhead costs \u2014 known as \u201cindirect costs\u201d \u2014 violates a 79-year-old law that governs how administrative agencies establish and administer regulations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout relief from N.I.H.\u2019s action, these institutions\u2019 cutting-edge work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt,\u201d the lawsuit said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Capitol Hill, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chairwoman of the chamber\u2019s Appropriations Committee, strongly objected to what she called \u201cthese arbitrary cuts.\u201d Ms. Collins, a Republican, said that when she called President Trump\u2019s nominee for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to complain, he promised to \u201cre-examine this initiative\u201d if confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The filing is the latest in a string of lawsuits challenging Mr. Trump\u2019s policies. Also on Monday, a federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to \u201cimmediately restore\u201d trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, including from the N.I.H., that had been frozen under a sweeping directive<\/a> the president issued, and later rescinded<\/a>, late last month.<\/p>\n

Scientists, medical researchers and public health officials have felt under siege since Mr. Trump became president. In addition to freezing grant dollars and slashing overhead costs, the administration has blocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from publishing scientific information on the threat of bird flu<\/a> to humans.<\/p>\n

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Nearly two dozen states sued the Trump administration and the National Institutes of Health on Monday to block a $4 billion cut to research funding that scientists say would cost thousands of jobs and eviscerate studies into treatments for cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s, heart disease and a host of other ailments.The funding cuts were to take effect Monday. The attorneys general of Massachusetts and 21 other states filed the suit, arguing the Trump administration\u2019s plan to slash overhead costs \u2014 known as \u201cindirect costs\u201d \u2014 violates a 79-year-old law that governs how administrative agencies establish and administer regulations.\u201cWithout relief from N.I.H.\u2019s action, these institutions\u2019 cutting-edge work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt,\u201d the lawsuit said.On Capitol Hill, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chairwoman of the chamber\u2019s Appropriations Committee, strongly objected to what she called \u201cthese arbitrary cuts.\u201d Ms. Collins, a Republican, said that when she called President Trump\u2019s nominee for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to complain, he promised to \u201cre-examine this initiative\u201d if confirmed.The filing is the latest in a string of lawsuits challenging Mr. Trump\u2019s policies. Also on Monday, a federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to \u201cimmediately restore\u201d trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans, including from the N.I.H., that had been frozen under a sweeping directive the president issued, and later rescinded, late last month.Scientists, medical researchers and public health officials have felt under siege since Mr. Trump became president. In addition to freezing grant dollars and slashing overhead costs, the administration has blocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from publishing scientific information on the threat of bird flu to humans.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21945,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21946,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions\/21946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}