A federal judge has permanently prevented the Trump administration on Friday from limiting funding from the National Health Institutes that support research in universities and academic medical centers, and restore billions of dollars from the grant funds, but it has almost resumed an appeal.
the to rule By Judge Angel Kelly, of the Federal Provincial Court of Massachusetts, she has made a former temporary order by her permanent and was one of the first final decisions in the barrage of lawsuits against the Trump administration. But it came in an extraordinary way: the government I asked the court to enter this particular ruling Earlier on Friday so that he can move forward with the appeal.
However, the decision was an initial victory for A variety of institutions Which is conducting medical research. After the Trump administration announced the change of policy in February, dozens of research hospitals and universities issued terrible warnings that threatened to propose Install American scientific ingenuity and innovationThe estimate is that the change can force these institutions to cover the collective shortage by about $ 4 billion.
Under the Trump Administration plan, the National Health Institutes can determine the funding it provides to cover the “indirect costs” of research – for things such as maintenance of buildings, utilities and support staff – by 15 percent in grants. Historically, when the agency granted grants, it can Allocating approximately 50 percent in some cases To cover the indirect costs associated with a specific study.
The Trump administration said it depicted policy as a way to free more federal dollars to pay the research costs directly – covering the salaries of scientists or buying the necessary equipment – contrary to the many occasional costs incurred by hospitals and laboratories in maintaining their facilities and other public expenditures.
However, critics have described that logic was deceitful, as the changes proposed by the administration will force institutions to cover the draft law, and it is more likely to get rid of employees and expand the scope of research projects in this process.
during Listen sessions In February, lawyers described an amazing set of laboratories under construction and ongoing clinical drug experiments that institutions will have to give up if they have to cover public costs on their own, or more or more overnight.
Judge Kelly has agreed constantly, repeatedly and repeatedly that the policy seemed unnecessarily reckless and will cause serious harm to important medical research. After the start Except for the Trump administration From the implementation of the change in February, it is extended I command her twice while she played the lawsuit.
The government wrote that the case submitted “legal cases of behavior” that it would fully address when the case reached the Court of Appeal.
The decision also came at a time when the scientific community and society were struggling with more clear threats to its work than The collapse of discounts Recently to the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services. It seems that many grant officers in the National Institutes of Health and other departments have been invaded in those workers.
Earlier on Friday, an alliance of 16 states Lay a lawsuit against the Trump administration To block grants that cover direct costs, medical research has been suspended, on the pretext that these, too, have been suspended, leaving the search in those states in a more clear danger.
