Twenty-two state attorneys General has filed a lawsuit on Monday Against the decision of the Trump Administration on reducing research funds by limiting how to pay universities and research institutes for “indirect costs”.
A lawsuit that also states the National Institute for Health Institutes and the Department of Health Services and Health Services as accused, said the effect of changing indirect rates will announce the “immediately and disastrous”.
NIH announced on Friday that will limit indirect financing for research projects at 15%, dramatically, which ensures the Federal Government financing for things such as equipment, maintenance, utilities and support staff. Earlier, such rates varied and negotiated by each institution with the Government. The new policy came into effect on Monday For all new grants and all new costs on existing grants.
The lawsuit, on Monday in the fourth US District Court in Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Illinois and Michigan, claims that NIH violated the Law on Administrative Procedure, which govern the process of those contractual agencies and issue new regulations. It also claims that the administration neglected the will of the congress, which included the provision designed to prevent indirect costs of 2018. year and after the first administration of the President Donald Trump tried to modify the procedure.
Any state with a democrat serving as a general general is part of the lawsuit.
“This Agency for the Agency will result in dismissal, suspension of clinical trials, disorders of current research programs and laboratory closures,” says the lawsuit. “NIH’s extraordinary attempt to disrupt all the existing and future grants not only represents a direct threat to the Nation’s research infrastructure, but a long-lasting impact on its research opportunities and its ability to provide life breakthroughs in scientific research.”
The lawsuit requires a temporary restriction and a preliminary ban for the NIH from the application of the new rule.
National Health Institutes focused a request for NBC news for a commentary department for health and human services, which did not respond immediately.
Scientists described the cuts for indirect costs as draconically and something that would almost certainly arrive research efforts to disease and for basic science that could lead to new discoveries.
“This will have a bad effect on research. If you don’t want to investigate research, you can achieve it this way,” Michael Eisen, Professor and Biologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
The limitation of indirect costs would likely transfer the burden of financial research away from the Federal Government and by universities and individual research institutions, and many said they did not have funding to support it.
In the news release, the University of California System said that the largest tenant of its research and spent $ 2.6 billion for the system survey during the last academic year. No changes in NIH would reduce hundreds of millions from the California budget in California a year.
“This reckless action will result in a wide decrease in staff and services, including patients, basic research and clinical trials,” said Theresa Maldonado Vice President in the California Research and Innovation System. “It will be devastating for a long time, permanently damaging time sensitive work in primary and clinical research.”
Proponents of NIH SHIFT described indirect costs as control costs of supervision.
In Friday post on xKatie Miller, appointed in the new government’s efficiency department, or Doge, he wrote, “President Trump works from liberal dei blanket”. This cuts only Harvard’s uncondent prices for ~ 250 million / year. ”
2025-02-10 19:17:00
