Dire consequences for scientific research
Trump in his wisdom has decreed that medical research is a useless frivolity so he’s sabotaging it.
The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their universities and medical centers and drawing swift rebukes from Democrats who predicted dire consequences for scientific research.
The move, announced Friday night by the National Institutes of Health, drastically cuts NIH’s funding for “indirect” costs related to research. These are the administrative requirements, facilities and other operations that many scientists say are essential but that some Republicans have claimed are superfluous.
Look, if you can’t do medical research in your own kitchen using the available tools, what use are you?
Democrats immediately castigated the Trump administration, saying NIH’s move would imperil clinical research, patient care and laboratory operations, among other health-care priorities.
“Just because Elon Musk doesn’t understand indirect costs doesn’t mean Americans should have to pay the price with their lives,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) said in a statement.
It does now.
It’s extreme that he is cutting these…or anything. The money is doled out by Congress; the president can veto, but this isn’t a veto. This is ending something that has gone through Congress.
I’m glad to see the Democrats are stepping up; when are the Republicans going to? Are they going to sit back and be made irrelevant, just a non-functional show Congress, while a couple of ignorant, uninformed jackasses take tasks that are not theirs? How long before Trump makes his horse a member of Congress, and they just have to take it?
tbf, a horse would do a better job that these spineless assholes.
Incitatus for President!
I suppose Trump would think a Congress member who always votes neigh would help provide stable government.
Jim Baerg, that made me whinny!