Politico March 3, 2025
With Erin Schumaker
FUNDING THROWDOWN — A federal court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s proposed across-the-board cut to the National Institutes of Health funding for universities’ “indirect costs,” such as facilities and administration.
But even if the courts reject the plan, Trump could turn to Plan B — renegotiating the payments one university at a time, Erin reports. At stake is $4 billion, a shortfall the universities say would devastate the nation’s scientific enterprise.
“Every action the administration has taken to date on this issue and in response to litigation in federal courts regarding other executive orders indicates that the administration will seek to achieve the results through other means,” said Daniel Graham, a partner at law firm McDermott...
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