A federal judge on Wednesday issued an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from imposing a 15 percent cap on research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), finding that plaintiffs had a high likelihood of succeeding on the merits of their argument.
U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley granted a nationwide preliminary injunction on the Trump White House’s plans to set a 15 percent cap on payments for indirect costs for NIH grant recipients. These funds go towards administrative costs, facility fees and paying support staff...
“Considering the irreparable harm likely to befall similarly situated nonparties, the chaos that would result both for institutions and NIH from a patchwork of injunctions, the diffuse nature of the Plaintiffs, and the nature of the suit, a nationwide preliminary injunction is the appropriate and reasonable remedy,” wrote Kelley.
Full story at https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5178800-federal-judge-presses-pause-nih-funding-cuts/.
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