Leaked budget document outlines how RFK Jr. may cut up #HHS to build new "Administration for a Healthy America"

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/16/trump-hhs-cuts-leaked-budget-draft-reveals-details-administration-for-a-healthy-america/ via @STAT

#TheGremlinZoo #NIH #HHS

From CNN.com: Top NIH nutrition researcher studying ultraprocessed foods departs, citing censorship under Kennedy

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/health/nih-nutrition-researcher-departs?cid=ios_app

This pediatrician was studying familes facing #FoodInsecurity and #housing insecurity. #NIH just cancelled his grant, claiming “Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous #equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry." The researcher calls bullshit. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/nih-grants-funding-terminated-health-equity-research-wrong/
#children

Mark your calendar #science #NSF #NIH #NOAA #NASA #CDC #EPA #FDA #USDA #ocean #air #water #farm #ag #health #biodiversity #earth #habitat #wildlife #conservation

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mpoxsaax7r5rs2tgeh56nqhn/post/3lmwkebxnps23

Folks, while much of the attention is on Harvard and Columbia's response to the Trump/Musk/RFK Jr. administration, I'd like to point out how #NIH terminations and funding cuts go far beyond this war with the nations' elite universities.

"Thousands of grants, including many at public universities and on topics as politically benign as Alzheimer’s, have been caught in what critics say is an unprecedented slowdown of the American research system that is threatening to upend universities and halt progress toward medical innovations, treatments and cures."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/one-countrys-leading-alzheimers-projects-jeopardy-rcna199788

"But Youle’s dismissal, along with 10 others at the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, underscores a recurring problem in the Trump administration’s push to rapidly shrink the federal workforce: Computers are making decisions without much human oversight."

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/future-pulse/2025/04/11/the-downside-of-rifs-at-nih-00283243

When you get rid of most of the people whose work fuels the day-to-day operations of an agency like #NIH, can the agency still function? Scientists & public health experts working at NIH, #CDC & #FDA fear the answer is no, & that they're about to find out. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/11/hhs-layoffs-analysis-health-impact-nih-cuts-cdc-rif-fda-reduction-in-force/

"The National Institutes of Health told employees Thursday it was rolling back directives from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to probe worker productivity and limit purchases and travel on company cards, according to messages obtained by POLITICO."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/health-staffers-told-to-ignore-musks-missives-00283976

“Scientists forced to perform humiliating new job amid Trump cuts.”

I wish that this article was from the Onion, but it’s actually news from the Daily Mail, that’s unfortunately the awful truth about the possible fate of scientists who were fired by the Trump admin by way of Musk’s DOGE.

It’s Trump who should be made to perform humiliating jobs in prison, for the rest of his life.

#Firings #DOGE #Science #Scientists #NIH #Musk #Trump #Resist #USPol

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14602853/scientists-forced-new-job-trump-nps-cuts.html

U.S. maternal mortality rate increased 27% over five years, NIH study finds
Amid government cuts, findings show the need to ‘increase investment,’ author says

A new U.S. government paper documenting an increase in maternal mortality from 2018 to 2022 does not hedge in its conclusion, calling the issue “an urgent public health priority.” That it was published amid massive job and funding cuts at federal health agencies charged with reducing these deaths has not escaped notice.

#NIH #maternalmortality #healthfunding

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/09/maternal-mortality-increases-as-research-funding-cut-urgent-public-health-priority/

A #DOGE engineer removed fed officials’ permissions to post to http://Grants.gov w/o telling them. Now decisions affecting $Bs in grant opportunities are set to flow through a DOGE-controlled mailbox.

The Trump admin has taken multiple steps to delay or halt fed grants, e.g. delaying $Bs in research grants issued by agencies such as the #NIH, freezing or term grants to higher-EDU insts...

The #TrumpMusk regime destroys lives, livelihoods & futures.

#Resist #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/doge-controls-federal-grant-postings/

If it's been too overwhelming to read every single thing about what's happening at federal health agencies, this piece from ten (10!) of my @STAT colleagues gives you an overview of what's happened and how bad it is:

“We are really trying to hold things together with our bare hands,” said one employee.

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/11/hhs-layoffs-analysis-health-impact-nih-cuts-cdc-rif-fda-reduction-in-force/

The massive staff cuts at #HHS hit many of the folks who kept HHS running, leaving #NIH labs hoarding dwindling supplies & trying to decide whether further demanded cuts should affect critical people or critical equipment. Destruction, not restructuring. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/11/hhs-layoffs-analysis-health-impact-nih-cuts-cdc-rif-fda-reduction-in-force/

Major public health groups and doctors call for RFKJr's resignation or firing.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/public-health-groups-call-kennedy-resign-or-be-fired-biomed-sector-airs-concerns