What: A second federal judge paused NIH funding cuts across the nation—stopping the Trump administration’s plan to cut around $4 billion from research grants, a move normally subject to congressional approval.
Key line: “The plaintiffs, including the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, claimed that the sudden funding cut would ‘wreak havoc’ on critical research and force universities to lay off staff, close laboratories, and shutter research programs altogether.”
Source: New York Times