Trump’s Plan to Defund the NIH Will Ruin a National Treasure

The United States has been a leader in biomedical research. Drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that have been developed as a result of research funded by the National Health Institute (NIH) have extended the lives of millions of people here and worldwide. Economic benefits National investments in biomedical studies come to local communities in workplaces and enterprises that support the large infrastructure needed for this work. According to some estimates in the financial year, NIH funded more than 400,000 jobs in the United States and downloaded $ 92 billion in cities and cities across the country. And the US was a beacon for scientists all over the world –Millions of people come here– Some to stay when they run out, some returned home to build scientific ecosystems of their own countries.

During the three weeks, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Russell Uc destroy this national treasure. Their plan is to attack NIH deep “the earliest steps made against NIH, in late January, were intended for destabilization of the system: the administration froze Grant financingforbidden Communication of the Agency’s staffand did List of prohibited conditions Which were to apply to grants and contracts. Then, in early February came the hammer – Nih gave out Illegal Edict which cut indirect costs on universities up to 15 percent. Let me explain what I think is going on.

First, let’s talk about the science of “slave”. While Trump, Musk and Wuts would call alternative science “woken up”, let’s realize that it really is. If you prohibit the conditions that refer to races, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and words such as “capital” from grants, you build a white supreme architecture for science in the US. We ignored disproportions in healthcare. face black and brown Americans, women and LGBTK Lots of books Read about this angry story. But at the end of the 20th century, NIH and federal agencies turned to address these basic gaps in life expectancy and health results. By banning the emphasis on all now, you just talk about anyone’s health, except for white and direct people, and mostly men do not matter. This is a science that would make Jefferson Davis proud. This is Eugenic for the 21st century.

When checking the mention of these terms when hiring, under the guise of transition after diversity, justice and inclusion programs, Trump, Musk and mustache, cleanse institutions and refuse to access educational and scientific and research opportunities for those who are not direct and white. A Nih pulled out his Dei programsand other institutions like Medical Institute of Howard Hughes The costume sticks. What does that mean?

This means that the door closes to people who were historically insufficient in research, despite their talents. (And let’s lower BS about the desire of a color system based on merit because we also know what the u is) Eduard Bonila-Silva in the Duke Racism color-clingIn which the racism “bull -konnor” was replaced by systemic practice to avoid people. Data on continuation Discrimination on the labor marketin Access to education There to see everyone, even if Trump and ko want to distract you from it. What we remain is a system of research for white people in America.

Now for the coup. In February, You are Matthew J. MemeolActing NIH director, on Friday night sent out a message that the government will reduce indirect costs at universities to 15 percent over the previous average about 30 percent, although it is even a higher percentage for other institutions such as Harvard, Jones Hopkins Hopkins and Stanford. Trump, Musk and Wuts tried to rotate it as Saving costs and redirect resources Before “real” research, not “wake up” university bureaucracy. But every working scientist knows that these indirect costs pay Keep the lights further And much more. IDK, as they are known, are subjected to support research that does not come from direct payments to scientists – IDCS are paid by administrators who help us in the preparation and processing of grants, preservation of animal establishments and safety laboratories, equipment divided among many at the institute, among other things .

But what Trump, Musk and WuTS know is what IDC is vital for universities that are included in their fiscal model, and without them, or with cuts like this, as it is, many universities will write at the border . It has nothing to do with efficiency or costs-is a way that the administration can collective higher education. Remember that JD Vance made a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in 2021 called “Universities – an enemy‘For this purpose, IDCs are also shrinking Discussed at the base of the 2025 project. As my Yale colleague Jason Stanley wrote in his new book Shying the storyAuthorities follow the universities to attract them to the heel or control them – because when they rewrite the story, as in this case with whitewashed America, they cannot disagree and independent thinking that prevents them.

What is happening now is not irreversible, but has inflicted a wound on biomedical studies, which will be needed for decades to recover. This will hurt people; This will slow down progress on the treatment and treatment of diseases, put many throughout the country on the unemployment line, as well as robbed the community of economic investments that the NIH financing brings them. I guess I will see a brain drain, fewer people come here to study and study, as well as for some American scientists looking for more green pastures to move to Europe and Asia.

In his ideological crossing, Trump, Musk and Vus kill a goose, which laid the golden egg of American preference in biomedical studies that have taken over half a century. And they can kill more than that of cancer studies, infectious pathogens, cardiovascular disease, dementia – and possibly under all diseases and conditions in the NIH portfolio.