National Institutes of Hell

Sadly, much damage to the NIH and the US has already been done. But at least now there's hope that soon we can start to move on and recover from the disease of DOGE

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Again, this is an aspirational document. I assume (and hope) and we need to make sure that Congress treats it with all of the respect it deserves...

Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.

More from the Washington Post (and this one is a doozy) regarding the President's Budget. Note that this is an aspirational document and Congress has to act (or ignore it).

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A graphic showing that 50.6% of research projects with "LGBT" search terms have been cancelled. 45.8% of grants with "transgender" in the search terms have been cancelled. 45.5% of research grants with "vaccine hesitancy" have been cancelled. 3.4% grants with "HIV" or "AIDS" have been cancelled.

The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields

Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/42wYrix

Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued The Trump administration’s remaking of HHS — in a matter of weeks — is sparking basic questions about how parts of the agency and those it oversees can continue to function.

The massive staff cuts at #HHS hit many of the folks who kept HHS running, leaving #NIH labs hoarding dwindling supplies & trying to decide whether further demanded cuts should affect critical people or critical equipment. Destruction, not restructuring. www.statnews.com/2025/04/11/h...

🧵This is so damn cool!!!

And, of course, NIH $$$ were used in this study

Yea and lemme guess, he's gonna cure cancer by Christmas

These cuts are neither Making America Great Again nor Making America Healthy Again

NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it. A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.

DOGE-induced delays in trials at the NIH Clinical Center

(Dr. Steve) Rosenberg said. “Right now, assuming things don’t get any worse, it would be a month [delay]. These are not patients that have very many months left.”

This seemed inevitable but is still a big deal...

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Could double the NIH budget with that. Which would be better for US health and economy?

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New minute entry in Massachusetts v. Kennedy, Jr. (NIH Grant Terminations): Order on Motion for Leave to Appear

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Trump Will Get His Showy (And Likely Expensive) Military Parade in D.C. Trump’s 2018 plans for a parade of military tanks and planes down Pennsylvania Avenue NW were scuttled. But this year no one will stop him.

While Trump (and Elon) cuts funding for NIH and the rest of HHS, he is planning a military parade that will cost the US taxpayer $100 million

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not to mention all the breakthroughs that will now never get discovered thanks to the layoffs and other cuts

Exclusive: SpaceX, ULA expected to clinch multibillion-dollar contract in key Pentagon launch program Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive satellites into space over the next several years, according to two people familiar with the procurement decision.

Meanwhile, Musk's SpaceX just got a new $5.9 billion contract from the federal government

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Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article) Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

We just got a permanent court order stopping the Trump administration from cutting billions in NIH funding.

This is a win for science, public health, and the rule of law.

At NIH, despite all the purges, they're working every day to cure cystic fibrosis, multiple sclerosis, breast cancer.

And that deadly disease of our time, malignant narcissistic personality disorder.

They might even find a cure for that baffling worm in brain disease. - @raskin.house.gov

it's like when a great white shark bites one of your limbs off, lets you bleed out for a bit, and then comes back for the kill

A permanent injection in indirect cost case. The “NIH” rule change violated administrative procedures act. Appeal to come.

Exclusive: SpaceX, ULA expected to clinch multibillion-dollar contract in key Pentagon launch program Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive satellites into space over the next several years, according to two people familiar with the procurement decision.

Meanwhile, Musk's SpaceX gets $5.9 billion contract from the federal government

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Exclusive: SpaceX, ULA expected to clinch multibillion-dollar contract in key Pentagon launch program Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive satellites into space over the next several years, according to two people familiar with the procurement decision.

Meanwhile, Musk's SpaceX gets $5.9 billion contract from the federal government

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

$5.9 billion for SpaceX

Exclusive: SpaceX, ULA expected to clinch multibillion-dollar contract in key Pentagon launch program Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive satellites into space over the next several years, according to two people familiar with the procurement decision.

As DOGE is cutting budgets and firing people left and right, yet another new federal government contract for Elon Musk's SpaceX

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Exclusive | Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance Peter Marks says the new health secretary’s team wants to show vaccines aren’t safe while promoting dangerous and unproven treatments.

More from Peter Marks on RFK Jr and the FDA
This extends beyond anti-vax to unproven use of stem cells
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NIH Funding Is Drying Up. Drug Discovery Could Go With It. Research funded by NIH was behind every single FDA drug approval from 2010 through 2016.

New article up in Barron's

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Attorney General James Sues Trump Administration for Illegally Cutting Funding for Medical Research NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 15 other attorneys general today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for its

🚨 BIG week for lawsuits against the NIH.

Now 16 states have sued NIH and HHS for "engag[ing] in a concerted, and multi-pronged effort to disrupt NIH’s grants."

"The result of these disruptions has been, in a word, devastating," they write.

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From "Buy Starlink" to "Bye, Starlink"

Elon's companies are HUGE government contractors. Any word on how much are the contracts for SpaceX/Starlink are getting cut by?? 🤣

This work was funded by.........NIH