Nearly twenty countries filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration and the national health institutes on Monday to prevent a Reducing 4 billion dollars To search for financing that scientists say it will cost thousands of jobs and expel studies in cancer treatments, Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease and a group of other diseases.
The financing discounts were valid on Monday. The Public Prosecutor in Massachusetts and another 21 state filed the lawsuit, under the pretext of the Trump administration plan to reduce public costs-known as “indirect costs”-violates a 79-year-old law that rules how administrative agencies established and managed 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.
In Capitol Hill, Senator Susan Collins, from Maine, Chairman of the Chamber’s Chamber, objected to what he called “these arbitrary cuts.” Mrs. Collins, a fans, said when she called President Trump’s candidate to the Minister of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, to the complaint, promised to “re -examine this initiative” if confirmed.
The deposit is the latest in a series of lawsuits that challenge the policies of Mr. Trump. Also on Monday, a federal judge in Rod Island ordered the Trump administration to “restore” trillion dollars immediately from grants and federal loans, including from the national health institutes. Frozen under a sweeping direction He issued the President, and Relax laterLate last month.
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 of control and prevention of diseases On the threat of bird flu For human beings.
The lawsuit filed on Monday includes a change, on Friday, the National Institutes of Health announced in the formula used by the government to determine the share of dollars in 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.
Dr. Michael F. said. Drake The plan will cost hundreds of millions 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. 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, face 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 National Health Institutes 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 group of right -wing policy proposals presented by the Heritage Foundation as a second Trump administration scheme. 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 taxpayers to elite universities that could cover their large gifts, or external financing from private institutions, easily 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, Friday wrote 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, have no additional money to cover these costs, and will have to expand the scope of medical research if 15 percent remain a sound roof.
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.
People familiar with the negotiations said these deliberations are complex and long affairs that include costs for elements such as heating bills and employees, supported by folders full of supportive records. 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 have been announced on Friday and will be 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. “Many research must stop” if the cuts continue, “said Dr. Robert Levicitz, a professor of medicine at Duke and obtained a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in an interview with him on the weekend.
“I cannot imagine better use of taxpayers,” he said.
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.”
The lawsuit also included the presidency of the presidential battle in Arizona, Nevada and Yistsen. These cuts, according to the lawsuit, will sculpt 65 million dollars from the Wisconsin University budget in Madison, which is studying adults, children, diabetes, degenerative neurological diseases and other cases.
