NIH Hurting University Research

NIH recently pushed back on federal funding on university research. Experts have called this an "apocalypse for science". This was an attempt to restructure how these schools received funding.

NIH's federal cutting of university research funds are blatantly irresponsible. They cut back on spending without warning, they were cutting out a lot of money, and it made current scientific projects come to a halt. This administration is consistently proving itself to be destructive under Trump.

Immediately cutting funding is inherently dangerous. These schools already committed significant resources into their projects & staff. This forces these institutions to scramble covering their most essential costs.

The projected amount of this cut was estimated to be about a billion. The Trump administration also took billions from NIH to try to shrink the federal government. They also cut 10,000 federal jobs. And ever since Trump took office, NIH cut 2,100 research grants that totalled to about 12 billion.

Long-term research projects in medical and biological science require sustained funding & infrastructure. Sudden interruptions in that process delay results and can also invalidate years of research. Projects like clinical trials and longitudinal studies can't be paused and resumed just like that.

Trump's administration is consistently proving itself to be unproductive & destructive. It seems to want to govern in chaos rather than building on & improving current systems. It has targeted this valuable institution like a theatrical play, and that is definitely within Trump's playbook. But it's to the detriment to us all who value this kind of research that was going on, whether we realize it or not.

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