The ACLU filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the NIH has conducted an "ongoing ideological purge of critical research projects" that violates federal law and is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts district court on behalf of four researchers and three unions with members who rely on NIH funding, says that the federal science agency "abruptly cancelled" hundreds of research projects "without scientifically-valid explanation or cause."
Teams that fulfilled requests for government documents lost their jobs on Tuesday as part of the Trump administration's 10,000-person staff cuts at HHS. Their work, mandated by Congress since the 1960s under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA, gives the public a view of the inner workings of federal health agencies. Public records teams were entirely cut at the CDC, FDA, NIH and other agencies on Tuesday.
A day after deep FDA cuts rocked their world, drug and med tech companies faced another potentially big hit when President Trump announced a baseline 10% tariff on U.S. imports.
The global trade war that the Trump administration is on the verge of igniting promises to only complicate matters. In many cases, the only path forward may be to try to change the game—for instance, by creating process or product innovations.