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- cross-posted to:
- usa@lemmy.ml
Summary
The Trump administration has blocked the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant review meetings by halting their required Federal Register submissions, effectively freezing medical research funding in apparent violation of a judge’s order.
The NIH’s actions defy a court ruling mandating an end to funding pauses. Experts warn the delay could cost $1 billion every three days and disrupt life-saving research.
Scientists suspect the move is a covert attack on medical science. If the administration continues to defy court orders, officials could face contempt charges.
The NIH did not provide an explanation for the cancellations.
A friend of mine, a lawyer, is very much a fence-sitter and thinks most of the alarm surrounding Trump is overdramatic.
But even he had to admit that if the courts lose legitimacy like that in such a brazen way, the country is finished.
It’s this that takes him from fence-sitting to “the country is finished”?
This is it, this is how the reality which has hit or will hit almost every Trump supporter or fence sitter. Once he goes from being “just joking / saying something controversial for political gain” and “he doesn’t mean it, he’s just memeing” to actually impacting them directly or an area they know about then they realise what the rest of us have been screaming: he wasn’t just joking, he was testing a boundary, and they didn’t push back.