"Democrats counted it as a win Tuesday when President Donald Trump signed a law providing $20 billion more for the agency that is the world’s largest health research funder than Trump requested.

Democrats’ victory could prove pyrrhic. Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his National Institutes of Health director, Jay Bhattacharya, have promised to spend the money, but not necessarily on projects Democrats will like."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/democrats-handed-rfk-jr-billions-more-than-he-asked-for-00763792 #healthcare #PublicHealth #NIH #USpol

"Since #Trump took office, the #NIH has terminated or frozen hundreds of millions of dollars for research grants, including $561 million in grants to research the four leading causes of death in America."

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/trump-admin-is-destroying-medical-research-senate-report-finds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

"Since #Trump took office, the #NIH has terminated or frozen hundreds of millions of dollars for research grants, including $561 million in grants to research the four leading causes of death in America."

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/trump-admin-is-destroying-medical-research-senate-report-finds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

"Democrats counted it as a win Tuesday when President Donald Trump signed a law providing $20 billion more for the agency that is the world’s largest health research funder than Trump requested.

Democrats’ victory could prove pyrrhic. Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his National Institutes of Health director, Jay Bhattacharya, have promised to spend the money, but not necessarily on projects Democrats will like."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/democrats-handed-rfk-jr-billions-more-than-he-asked-for-00763792 #healthcare #PublicHealth #NIH #USpol

"The National Institutes of Health employee behind The Bethesda Declaration, a scathing public critique of the Trump administration’s cuts to biomedical research, sought federal whistle-blower protections on Monday, saying her superiors had retaliated against her by putting her on 'nondisciplinary administrative leave.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/nih-worker-trump-whistle-blower-protection.html

#healthcare #biomedical #research #science #NIH #whistleblower #USpol

"The National Institutes of Health employee behind The Bethesda Declaration, a scathing public critique of the Trump administration’s cuts to biomedical research, sought federal whistle-blower protections on Monday, saying her superiors had retaliated against her by putting her on 'nondisciplinary administrative leave.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/nih-worker-trump-whistle-blower-protection.html

#healthcare #biomedical #research #science #NIH #whistleblower #USpol