Reduction of financing of nih -a: Federal judge expands the restriction of a stopping order to stop Trump’s action
Judge appointed Biden expanded a temporary abstaining order on Friday Trump administration Reducing national institutes for financing health research.
The decision of the US District Judge Angel Kelley of Massachusetts – who issued an initial limit order last week – comes in response to separate lawsuits filed by a group of 22 countries plus organizations representing universities, hospitals and research institutions across the country.
National Health Institutes (NIH) announced earlier this month that it will reduce billions of costs related to grants to funding of federal countries that go to various institutions, as part of the wider move of Trump administration to reduce waste consumption.
The main physician of biomedical studies, last year, awarded more than 60,000 grants in the total amount of about $ 35 billion. The total are divided into “direct” expenses – cover the salaries of researchers and laboratory supplies – and “indirect” costs, administrative and costs of the facility needed to support this work.
Trump runs a return reaction after reducing billions of costs from NIH for research scholarships
Medical researchers from different universities and national health care institutes at the headquarters of health and human services, so that on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, in Washington, in Washington. (AP/John McDonnell)
Trump’s administration has rejected these costs as “directing”, but universities and hospitals claim to be far more critical. They may include things such as the current to manage sophisticated machines, disposal of dangerous waste, staff providing researchers to follow safety rules and janitation workers, according to Associated Press.
States and research groups claim that reductions are illegal, indicate Double -sided congress action During Trump’s first term who forbade them.
“Still, here we are again,” the lawyers in the court claimed, saying that they were “open defiance” of what Congress had ordered.
In her own written arguments, Trump’s administration said that they had the authority to change the conditions after the grant’s allocation and that Kelley’s courtroom was not an appropriate place for arbitration for a contract violation.
States and researchers “failed to show that they would suffer an irreparable injury,” the administration proposal said.
Scientists expect great ‘medical breakthroughs’ despite Trump’s limit for nih to financing research
National Health Institutes under President Donald Trump have limited indirect costs associated with agency research scholarships, as part of a wider move to reduce waste state consumption. (Alamy/Getty Pictures)
If the new policy stands, indirect costs would be limited to 15%immediately, for the assigned support and new ones. He calculated what the agency would save $ 4 billion a year.
Officials at Johns Hopkins University have said that reductions will end or require a significant reduction in research projects, which could also include some of the 600 studies that funded their open to Hopkins patients.
“Him, treatment and medical breakthroughs that were given and their families were not” over their heads “,” University of Ron Daniels and Hopkins Medicine CEO they wrote to employees.
Department of Efficiency of the Trump Administration Government, led by Elon Musk, He applauded the moves.
Elon Musk speaks at a conservative conference on political actions, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Respan, on Thursday, February 20, in Oxon Hill, MD. Musk praised the reduction of the financing of Trump’s administration. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
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“Can you believe that tens of billions in gifts have chased 60% of the money for the” Directors “award?” Musk posted on social networks. “What a ripoff!”
Fox News’ Alec Schemmel and Associated Press contributed to this report.
