Trump vs. Public Health: Funding Cuts Gut CDC’s Disease Detectors, Medical Research & More
By Donna February 17, 2025 1:09 pm Category: Health (5.0 from 1 vote)
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This segment is from today's show. It's incredibly sad for me to watch these souless bastards destroy so many lives. Unconcionable. I'm also thinking of the thousands of government workers who suddenly lost their jobs and income without any warning.
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Since President Trump took office less than a month ago, he’s signed dozens of executive orders. We begin today’s show looking at how these measures have affected the science and medicine, the practice of it, in the United States. Many describe it as taking a wrecking ball to the enterprise, considered the crown jewel of the scientific community worldwide. Staff layoffs; slashed budgets, diversity programs; canceled studies and conferences have already had a profound impact at home and globally as scientists, students, doctors, professors, patients have been left reeling. Republican-led states may see some of the worst fallout from cuts to the National Institutes of Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention disease detective program is among the latest to be gutted, even as the avian flu threatens the country.
We go right now to STAT reporter Angus Chen, who’s been closely following the impact of the Trump administration’s executive orders on science and health. His recent exclusive was headlined “Trump policies spark fears of brain drain, threatening to undermine U.S. dominance in biomedicine.” His other pieces include “Trump’s restrictions spark chaos across health and science agencies,” “Growing number of federal health agencies are combing grants for taboo words” — he’s talking about words like “women” and ”COVID” — “Trump pressuring universities to end DEI or lose federal grants,” “NIH plans to slash support for indirect research [costs], sending shockwaves through science,” and “Federal judge halts Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments in 22 states.” STAT News is a leading news outlet covering health science and medicine.
Full interview with Angus Chen at link
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