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The departments affected rely on funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy.
A federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.
“Trump has committed that the U.S. be the leading nation in biomedicine,” Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya told skeptical senators in both parties.
"They're all corrupt," Kennedy claimed of publications like The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.
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The HHS secretary "clearly believes that the more he tells a lie, the more it becomes the truth,” Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) told HuffPost.
"Unfortunately, recent events have made me question whether NIH continues to be a place where I can freely conduct unbiased science," wrote Dr. Kevin Hall.
“If we fail to demand accountability, we risk losing not only progress, but a piece of our collective soul.”
Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.
Several student applicants have said that their offer letters were rescinded, with university officials blaming "unforeseen budgetary challenges" for the decision.
Scientists and medical experts said the move to effectively slash NIH grants will interrupt research across the country.