MedPage Today February 24, 2025
— Trump acolytes have for years quietly laid the groundwork to disrupt the national health system
Few voters likely expected President Trump in the first weeks of his administration to slash billions of dollars from the nation’s premier federal cancer research agency.
But funding cuts to the NIH were presaged in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadershipopens in a new tab or window,” a conservative plan for governing that Trump said he knew nothing about during his campaign. Now, his administration has embraced it.
The 922-page playbook compiled by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research group in Washington, says “the NIH monopoly on directing research should be broken” and calls for capping payments to universities and their hospitals to “help reduce...
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