Provisions in the counteroffer to a continuing resolution would prevent illegal withholding of funds and partisan budget cuts.
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Trump’s Fraying Alliance With RFK Jr.
Today on TAP: Will congressional Republicans get serious about restraining Kennedy’s perverse policies or forcing his resignation?
Posted inTAP
The NIH Funding Wars
Today on TAP: Are Republican senators more loyal to Trump, or to their home-state economies?
Posted inEducation in America
University Unions Stand Up to Trump’s Research Cuts While Administrators Waver
While some universities have capitulated to Trump’s NIH cuts, there are faculty and graduate student union leaders on the frontlines pushing back.
Posted inPolitics
Will the Senate Save NIH?
Rescuing biomedical research is every bit as important as saving Medicaid.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump and the Tech Oligarchy
Trump seems to be destroying America’s innovation system, but he is really skewing it in favor of tech monopolies.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Trump Administration Is Objectively Pro-Cancer
America used to have the best medical research system in the world. Elon Musk and RFK Jr. are ripping it to shreds.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans
The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.
Posted inPolitics
What Trump Could Learn From Hitler on NIH Funding
Even the Führer knew to support German science, and not just for war. Why is Trump trying to destroy America’s great research universities?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Why Is NIH Perpetuating Long COVID Denial?
Documents obtained by The Sick Times reveal the bastion of the medical establishment squandered a billion dollars on a long COVID study that seems suspiciously designed to fail.