No. of Recommendations: 6
...and delayed sending funding to more than 1,000 additional research projects.
And no, not “$8 million for making mice transgender.”
Mad King Donald has falsely claimed that Elon Musk was helping to find wasteful government spending, including “$8 million for making mice transgender.” Never happened.
In all, the N.I.H., the world’s premier public funder of medical research, has ended 1,389 awards and delayed sending funding to more than 1,000 additional projects, The Times found. From the day Mr. Trump was inaugurated through April, the agency awarded $1.6 billion less compared with the same period last year, a reduction of one-fifth. (N.I.H. records for May are not yet comparable.)
The impacts extend far beyond studies on politically disfavored topics and Ivy League universities like Columbia or Harvard. The disruptions are affecting research on Alzheimer’s, cancer and substance use, to name just a few, and studies at public institutions across the country, including in red states that backed Mr. Trump.
“I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled,” said Eden Tanner, a chemist at the University of Mississippi, who had been working with a colleague at Ohio State University to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. From 2015 to 2024, there have been fewer than 20 terminations a year, on average. Mad King Donald killed 1,389.
Well, it's a lucky thing republicans don't die from glioblastoma.
Oh, except for senator John McCain.
But Mad King Donald was happy to see him dead.
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