The States continue the National Institutes of Health to put an end to medical research subsidies which save lives which, according to Trump officials, were “studies of I”.
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Washington – Democratic prosecutors in 16 states led by New York continued Asset Administration Friday on its cancellation of the National Institutes of Health Research subsidies The group called criticism for vital medical research.
The NIH began to end tens of millions of subsidies in March on the basis of President Donald TrumpThe ordinances to abolish the programs of diversity, equity and inclusion, according to the federal trial filed in the Massachusetts. The letters dismissing subsidies said they had targeted “Dei”, “transgender problems” or “vaccine hesitation,” said the trial.
“Again, the Trump administration puts policy before public health and risks lives and livelihoods in the process,” said New York prosecutor, Letitia James, in a statement. “Millions of Americans depend on the research institutions of our country for treatments and remedies to diseases that devastate families every day.”
The case was tabled the same week, the Ministry of Health and Social Services licensed 10,000 additional workers As part of a decision to cut almost a quarter of its staff Reduce public spending.
The trial of States requests the courts to restore funding for the grant and to ensure that the government uses legal procedures to determine funding. THE American Medicine Colleges Association and the American Public Health Association Everyone continued the NIH in February to end the research subsidies and group of 22 states previously continued the NIH on The cap of general costs on research.
Research canceled subsidies on Alzheimer’s disease, drug addiction, HIV
In New York, the NIH ended more than $ 4.5 million in research grants for New York State University. Canceled subsidies include projects on Alzheimer’s disease in America from Asia and Latin American, risk of drug addiction for young LGBTQ + and the treatment of HIV in Ghana.
In the letters of termination, the NIH arbitrarily affirmed that these were “DEI studies” and said that the projects were “incompatible with the agency’s priorities, and no modification of the project could align the project with the agency’s priorities,” said the prosecution.
Critical medical research “in jeopardy”: pursuit
NIH is the largest public funder for medical research in the world and is responsible for vital vaccines that have eradicated several diseases, biomedical discoveries that have reduced the risk of certain cancers and life treatments for diseases that were previously a death penalty, such as HIV and AIDS.
The $ 37 billion in NIH awards last year stimulated more than $ 94 billion in new economic activities, according to the trial, and investments have supported more than 400,000 jobs nationwide.
“This critical work is now in danger,” said the trial.
Trump ordered the end of the programs to the first day of return to power
Trump signed a decree on his first day back on January 20 put an end to the Dei programs through the government.
“Americans deserve a government determined to serve each person with dignity and equal respect, and to spend precious resources from taxpayers only to make America large,” said Trump’s order.
Prosecution names Robert KennedyThe Secretary of Health and Social Services, and a number of NIH agencies as defendants such as the National Cancer Institute, the National Eye Institute and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
In letters putting an end to the financing of subsidies, the NIH said that projects were “studies of I” which were “incompatible with the priorities of the agency, and no modification of the project could align the project with the priorities of the agency”. But the letters did not provide any factual basis for these complaints or overview of the priorities of new agencies, according to the trial.
In addition to stopping research indefinitely, the delays in the financing of the NIH have postponed future studies and forced researchers to abandon projects and lose key staff, according to the trial.
In addition to New York, the attorneys general of the state who brought a trial from Arizona, Calorado, Colorado, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin.