A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked President Trump’s plan to cut funding for the National Institutes of Health.
) - A federal judge in Massachusetts has temporarily blocked President Trump’s plan to cut funding for the National Institutes of Health .
If that funding is cut, it would affect research entities nationwide, like UAB, which records show received almost $500 million from NIH in 2023. The Trump administration announced Friday night it’s cutting the amount of funding the NIH pays for overhead costs at research institutions. Senator Tommy Tuberville says the cuts would be Trump’s way of fulfilling his promise to cut wasteful federal spending.
“Drastically lowering NIH indirect cost recovery jeopardizes life-saving research, and it would also result in job and economic loss in Birmingham and Alabama. If the reduction remains in place, advancements in virtually all areas of research would slow, including those addressing the leading causes of death in the United States, from cancer to Alzheimer’s, stroke, Parkinson’s, heart disease and diabetes, among other diseases and disorders that devastate lives and families.
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