A certain judge from Biden extended a temporary restriction order on Friday against Trump administration Discounts to the national institutes for financing health research.
The decision of the American boycott judge from Massachusetts – which issued the initial restriction order last week – in response to separate lawsuits submitted by a group of 22 states in addition to organizations representing universities, hospitals and research institutions at the country level.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced earlier this month that it will reduce billions of costs related to the federal research grants that go to various institutions, as part of a broader step by the Trump administration to reduce waste spending.
The National Institutes of Health, the main texture of biomedical research, granted more than 60,000 grants last year, totaling about 35 billion dollars. The total is divided into “direct” costs – which cover the salaries of researchers and laboratory supplies – and “indirect” costs, administrative costs and facilities needed to support this work.
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Medical researchers from various universities and national health institutes at the headquarters of health and humanitarian services to protest against federal budget discounts on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP/John Mcdonnel)
The Trump administration has rejected these expenses as “general”, but universities and hospitals argue that they are more important. It can include things like electricity to operate advanced machines and get rid of dangerous waste and employees who guarantee researchers to follow safety rules and pairing workers, according to Associated Press.
Countries and research groups argue that discounts are illegal, which indicates Partisan Congress worked During the first period of Trump to ban them.
“However, we are here again,” the lawyers argued in the court's proposal, saying that the national institutes of health are “in the open challenge” of what was issued by Congress.
In its written arguments, the Trump administration said that NIH has the authority to change the conditions after granting the grants and that the Kelly court hall is not the place to arbitrate the contracts for violating the contract.
According to the management of the administration, “Countries and researchers have failed to show that they will suffer from an irreplaceable injury.”
During the era of President Donald Trump, the National Institutes of Health have placed indirect costs associated with granting agency research, as part of a broader step to reduce wasteful government spending. (Alamy/Getty Images)
If the new policy is standing, then the costs of indirect costs are 15 % immediately, for the scholarships already granted and new grants. The National Health Institutes account would provide the agency $ 4 billion a year.
The officials of the University of Johns Hopkins said that the cuts will end or require large research projects, which are likely to include some of the 600 studies funded by the National Institutes of Open Health for Hopkins patients.
“Care, treatments and medical breakthroughs provided to them and their families are not” general “, Theodore Dewiz, CEO of the university company, wrote:
Government efficiency management in the Trump administration, led by Elon Musk, The moves applauded.
Elon Musk at the Conservative Political Labor Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center on Thursday, February 20, in Oxon Hill, Maryland Musk, praised the NIH financing discounts for the Trump administration. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
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“Can you believe that universities with tens of billions in the endowments were outperforming 60 % of the” public expenditures “money?” Spreading musk on social media. “What a ripoff!”
Fox News' Alex Schemel and Associated Press contributed to this report.
