On Monday, a federal judge temporarily prevented the National Institutes of Health from cutting research financing in 22 states that filed a lawsuit earlier in the day on the pretext that the plan will cancel studies to cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and a group of other diseases.
The financing discounts, which were announced late on Friday, were effective on Monday. But the general lawyers in the state of Massachusetts and 21 other states filed a lawsuit against. They argued that the Trump administration plan to reduce $ 4 billion of public costs-known as “indirect costs”-violated a 79-year-old law governs how administrative agencies are establishing and managing regulations.
“Without relief from the work of the National Institutes of Health, the work of these advanced institutions to treat and treat human diseases will stop,” The lawsuit said.
By Monday evening, relief was granted. Judge Angel Kelly of the US District Court of Massachusetts has issued a temporary temporary matter asking for 22 states to submit a case report in 24 hours and again every two weeks to confirm the regular exchange of funds. The judge set a session on February 21.
Deposit is the latest in a series of lawsuits that challenge President Trump’s policies. Also on Monday, a federal judge in Rod Island ordered the Trump administration to “restore” trillion dollars immediately from federal scholarships and loans, including from the national health institutes, which were frozen under a sweeping direction issued by the President, and later canceled, late, late at a time Late last month.
It involves countries that have not joined the lawsuit, which will continue to face financing discounts. It includes some states that receive generous research prizes, including Pennsylvania, which receives about $ 2.7 billion of national health institutes and Alabama, which receive about $ 500 million in agency’s funds. Georgia and Missouri were also part of the lawsuit, each withdrawing about one billion dollars in granting medical study.
In the Capitol Hill on Monday, the discounts attracted objections from a prominent Republic. She announced her support for Robert F. Kennedy Junior.The choice of Mr. Trump to the Minister of Health. Mrs. Collins, Chairman of the Senate Credit Committee, said that she had contacted Mr. Kennedy to record her strong opposition to “these arbitrary cuts”, and that he promised “a review of this initiative” if confirmed.
Scientists, medical researchers and public health officials have felt under siege since Mr. Trump became president. In addition to freezing grant dollars and reducing general costs, the administration prevented the centers for controlling and preventing diseases from spreading scientific information about the threat of bird flu to humans.
The lawsuit filed on Monday included a change, which was announced by the National Health Institutes on Friday, in the formula used by the government to determine the share of the donors of grants that can move towards general costs. These expenses include lighting, heating and building maintenance, but also expensive advanced equipment maintenance for any one laboratory for purchase of itself.
The head of the regime, Dr. Michael F. said. Drake, the plan will cost the system of millions from the University of California annually.
“The reduction of this size is no less than a catastrophic for countless Americans who depend on the scientific progress of the University of California to save lives and improve health care,” Dr. Drake said in a statement on Monday. “This is not just an attack on the flag, but on the health of big America. We must stand against this misleading and misleading action.”
State officials are also concerned that the cuts may harm their economies and cost thousands of jobs. Andrea Joy Campbell, Democrat, the state prosecutor, Andrea Joy Campbell, Democrat, said Massachusetts is proud to be “the country’s medical research capital.” In announcing the lawsuitAdding, “We will not allow the Trump administration to undermine our economy illegally, Torcon our competitiveness or play politics with our public health.”
The National Health Institutes granted $ 4.5 billion of research funds in Massachusetts in recent years, including the search for pancreatic cancer, high blood pressure and acute asthma. The agency also sent about $ 5 billion to New York. The lawsuit said that this reduction is expected to cost about $ 850 million.
The national phone institutes said last year, 9 billion dollars from 35 billion dollars – Or about 26 percent – from the dollars of grants that I distributed went to public expenditures, or indirect costs. Some academic institutions devote 50 percent or more of their dollars for such costs. The administration said that the new policy will do this “indirect funds” by 15 percent, and provide $ 4 billion.
Reducing indirect funds was the target of the 2025 project, a set of right -wing policy proposals presented by the Heritage Corporation as a second Trump administration plan. The project report said that the cuts “will help reduce the support of the Federal Tax Force for the Left Business Table.”
Administration officials and their allies threw indirect costs, such as the taxpayer, to elite universities, whose large gifts can easily cover these costs.
“President Trump gets rid of the Dean’s Deans Fund,” Katie Miller, a member of the effort led by Elon Musk to reduce the size of the federal government, He wrote on Friday on social media. “This only reduces Harvard’s obscene price, which is rising by approximately $ 250 million.”
But Lawrence or. Gustin, an expert in the General Health Law at Georgetown University, said that many smaller academic institutions, including colleges and historical black universities, had no additional funds to cover these costs, and will have to expand medical research if 15 remained CAP. .
A spokeswoman for the National Health Institutes of Health referred questions to her parent agency, the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, which was also called as a defendant in the lawsuit. The administration refused to comment, noting the suspended litigation.
This is not the first time that the Trump administration has moved to reduce money. In 2017, during the first period of Mr. Trump, a similar proposal had reduced public payments to 10 percent of the award amount, according to a lawsuit on Monday. The voltage stumbles.
After that, Congress was spent to “avoid” a future effort and approved a budget bill that prohibits changing fees from the levels that were negotiated between federal officials and every research institution, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims that the administration cannot make random changes on the action taken by Congress. He also said that the notice announced the change of the rate of violation of the administrative procedures law in multiple ways.
The proposed changes were wandering in universities, which have already put the finishing touches on the budgets on the assumption that the money would arrive. The changes were announced on Friday and it was valid on Monday.
“There is no place near this estimated funds to float anywhere,” said Jeremy Berg, director of the National Institutes of former Health, which supervised public medical research. “The only thing the university can do is to conduct less research and start shooting at staff and faculty. It will be destroyed.”
The largest impact of the California University system, which the lawsuit said that the lawsuit receives two billion dollars in the National Health Institutes Research funds for many universities and cancer treatment centers. The leading funds have supported the leading research there, including the invention of genes and the first radiotherapy of cancer, according to the case.
While the lawsuits against the Trump administration tend to be dominated by democratic -led countries, this issue also has places that recently preferred Mr. Trump in the elections.
It includes the state of North Carolina, which receives about $ 3.7 billion in financing the National Institutes of Health granted to schools such as Duke, North Carolina and Wick Forest.
Michigan, a presidential spin of a presidential state made by Mr. Trump in November, also raised a possible loss of $ 181 million in financing for the University of Michigan alone. The lawsuit said that the university has 425 experiments funded by the National Health Institutes ongoing on many diseases, “including 161 experiments aimed at saving lives.”