A Trump administration judge order to stop On a plan that would reduce $ 4 billion In federal financing to research the country’s universities, cancer centers and hospitals.
The money spent by the National Institutes of Health covers the administrative costs and general expenses of a wide range of biomedical research, some of which are directed to treat diseases such as the heart, blood vessels, cancer and diabetes.
The order was issued by Judge Angel Kelly to the American Provincial Court in Boston late Monday night in response to a lawsuit filed by university societies and major research centers that argued that “illegal illegal procedure” by US health officials “will destroy medical research in American universities. “
Medal of the temporary restriction order presented by Judge Kelly, who is appointed by Biden, In a similar arrangement This was granted earlier on Monday after he had set up nearly twenty lawyers to stop the cuts in their states.
The Trump administration plan agreed on the agreed payments received by universities and health systems to support world academic medical research when it was suddenly announced on Friday.
Academic researchers and university officials predicted that the plan would close valuable studies, cost thousands of jobs and kneel the United States in competitive efforts to achieve medical breakthroughs.
The plan applies to $ 9 billion from $ 35 billion of grants issued to research institutions. This quarter of the total research financing supports the so -called indirect costs that apply to administrative general expenses, including, for example, employees, construction, laboratory operations and maintenance.
The Trump administration said it wanted to reduce such money almost half, about $ 4 billion.
General cost financing has been criticized in the past. Money opposition appeared in the project plan 2025 for conservative policies, indicating that the financing of the National Health Institutes Research provided a lot of support to the “left” universities.
On Friday, Katie Miller, a member of the effort by Elon Musk, was published to cut the size of the federal government, on social media: “President Trump gets rid of the liberal diles fund.”
Universities bear a flagrant different point of view. Dr. Alan M. Garper, President of Harvard University, in a statement on Sunday, that the money supports scientific breakthroughs that “have become more frequent and more dependent.”
“At a time of rapid steps in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, brain science, biological imaging, and regenerative biology, and when other countries expand their investments in science, America should not fall intentionally and risks from its main location on the endless borders, he said Dr. Garper.
Prosecutors, including the American Medical Colleges Association and the American Association of Pharmacy Colleges, claimed that the sudden reduction in financing “will lead to” ruin “on critical research and forced universities in the end to dispense with employees, close laboratories and close some research programs.
In a legal note related to the lawsuit, universities argued that the funds were indispensable in research, including in the facilities in which laboratory animals are subject to clinical tests, to computer systems that analyze large quantities of data, and for blood banks and other expenses that cannot be Directly linked to one project.
If the discounts in financing are the survival of legal challenges, the prosecutors wrote, “Research laboratories will literally appear because there is no electricity.”
They argued that smaller institutions may not be able to maintain any research and “can be closed completely.”
Congress thwarted a previous effort during President Trump’s first term to reduce indirect research financing. The legislators added measures to the budget bills to ensure that the money remains at the levels agreed upon by researchers and federal officials.
In the lawsuit, the Universities Association argued that the current proposal violated the will of Congress and also challenged standard administrative procedures.
In granting a temporary stop for the correction, Judge Kelly spent that the prosecutor “would maintain an immediate and unleash injury.”
A session date was set on February 21.
