$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Social Services confirmed the financing break to journalists. American senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Vice-president of the Senate credit committee, estimated that the amount of frozen funding was around $ 15 billion.
But, later Tuesday, in the middle of the outcry around the financing frost, the decision would have been reversed. The Wall Street Journal reported that the overthrow occurred after senior White House officials intervened.
On social networks, the OMB communications director said that funding was only “undergoing a programmatic review while we expected more information from the NIH and that we are released”. But Senator Murray noted that the Omb proved any evidence that the funds were released.
In a press release, Murray deplored the damage that the Trump administration has already caused the scientific and medical community, in particular by already maintaining $ 5 billion in funding while “monthly on waste, fraud and abuse” at NIH. She accused Trump and Vought of working to “decimate the search for life in this country”.
“We cannot immediately cancel massive brains, closed clinical trials and damage caused by this administration,” she said. “Medical miracles do not occur overnight, and you cannot activate and deactivate research on the fall in a penny. This administration does an irremediable harm to our efforts to cure cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and much more. But this administration can – and deposit bleeding by putting an end to its attacks against medical research and obtaining this funding.”
