In addition, MAGA has ground the grant approval machinery to a halt:
Between February 3, 2024, and February 10, 2024, the NIH issued 513 grant awards totaling $218,273,053. Between February 3 and February 10 this year [e.g. this last week], the NIH issued just 11 grant awards totaling $4,981,089. In other words, since the courts ordered a full resumption in grant funding, the agency approved a handful of grants accounting for 2.2% of its typical volume. An NIH official says a small number of grants are being approved by NIH leadership, but nearly all grants remain frozen. [Then, yesterday] on February 10, NIH canceled all Federal Advisory Committee meetings where new grants are approved.
The stakes here are time sensitive clinical trials and research, many of which will be ruined by these delays. It's literally going to kill untold numbers of Americans, including some who voted for this idiocy.
Here we go. They're openly defying court orders. In this case regarding the disbursement of grants through the National Institutes of Health: https://popular.info/p/trump-maintains-funding-freeze-at
In addition, MAGA has ground the grant approval machinery to a halt:
Between February 3, 2024, and February 10, 2024, the NIH issued 513 grant awards totaling $218,273,053. Between February 3 and February 10 this year [e.g. this last week], the NIH issued just 11 grant awards totaling $4,981,089. In other words, since the courts ordered a full resumption in grant funding, the agency approved a handful of grants accounting for 2.2% of its typical volume. An NIH official says a small number of grants are being approved by NIH leadership, but nearly all grants remain frozen. [Then, yesterday] on February 10, NIH canceled all Federal Advisory Committee meetings where new grants are approved.
The stakes here are time sensitive clinical trials and research, many of which will be ruined by these delays. It's literally going to kill untold numbers of Americans, including some who voted for this idiocy.