Trump is playing a deadly game with cuts to medical research

The Trump administration's new policy capping the amount of money the National Institutes of Health gives research institutions for the "indirect costs" of running labs is endangering researchers’ ability to find cures for a host of devastating diseases and will grind biomedical research in the United States to a halt, according to a new lawsuit filed on Monday by 22 Democratic attorneys general.

The lawsuit alleges that the NIH's new rule—which caps the indirect cost reimbursement rate at 15%—violates a law passed by Congress that banned the NIH and the Department of Health and Human Services from changing those reimbursement rates.

"Without relief from NIH’s action, these institutions’ cutting edge work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt,” the lawsuit argues. That “will directly impact the well-being of the Plaintiff states’ citizens, who are the beneficiaries of research creating treatments, such as modern gene editing, vaccines such as flu vaccines, and cures for diseases like cancer, infectious diseases, and addiction.”

Capping the indirect cost reimbursement rate is the latest Trump administration move to try to trim the federal budget, an initiative that’s been led by co-President Elon Musk—the multibillionaire whose companies ironically receive billions in federal funding.

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