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BOSTON 鈥?Attorneys general from 22 states filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration for slashing funding for medical and public health research at universities nationwide.The lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston challenges the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health over efforts to reduce funding that goes to so-called indirect costs 鈥?including lab, faculty, infrastructure and utility costs.The states argue that research into treating and curing human disease will grind to a halt and people would lose access to modern gene editing, vaccines such as flu vaccines, and cures for diseas stanley cup es like cancer, infectious diseases, and addiction. We will not allow the Trump Administration to unlawfully undermine our economy, hamstring our competitiveness, or play politics with our public health, Massachusetts Attorney Andrea Campbell said in a statement.Rh stanley quencher ode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, whose state has several significant research institutions including Brown University and the University of Rhode Island, said the Trump administration seemed hell-bent on upending advancement in this country. This reduction in funding would seriously th stanley quencher reaten the future of this research, Neronha said in a statement. If youve ever wished for a cure, for better treatment options, for yourself or a loved one, this should feel personal. Last week, the NIH announced it was cutting payments toward overhead costs Ymln Iraq detains, checks men fleeing IS-held Fallujah
WASHINGTON 鈥?MIT economist Jonathan Gruber 鈥?an often-quoted adviser on the presidents health care law 鈥?told Congress on Tuesday he was glib and inexcusably arrogant when he said it was the stupidity of the American voter that led to the laws passage. Democrats tried to limit the damage as Republicans raked Gruber at a four-hour hearing, but stanley mug acknowledg stanley us ed he gave the GOP a political gift wrapped in a bow. Gruber told groups in 2012 and 2013 that voter stupidity and a lack of transparency were important to passing the hard-fought legislation. Appearing before the House Oversight committee Tuesday, Gruber expanded on earlier apologies, repeatedly saying I was conjecturing in areas beyond my expertise. Enduring one fierce lecture after another, Gruber said his earlier comments were uninformed, glib, thoughtless and som stanley thermos etimes downright insulting. He said he was showing off before various groups, and trying to be something, Im not, which was a political expert. He said the laws passage was actually transparent and heavily debated in public, despite his earlier comments. And Gruber said he was not the architect of the law, as some press accounts had claimed.But Republican Committee Chairman Darrell Issa of California called Gruber a crucial player in the legislation. Issa grilled Gruber repeatedly in what might be his last committee probe of what he calls Obamacare. Republican term limits will force Issa 鈥?whose bare-knuckled attacks on administration programs someti |
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