Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration, appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Tuesday. At the wide-ranging hearing, Bhattacharya defended the chaotic and disruptive cuts to the institutions he leads, while carefully wording his vaccine-related responses — seemingly to avoid contradicting his boss, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As Bhattacharya testified, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the ranking member of the HELP Committee, released a report outlining NIH’s position. The report concluded that the Trump administration is “failing American patients,” and “destroying medical research through cuts to research grants, termination of clinical trials, and the chaos it has created.”
The report found that since Trump took office, NIH has eliminated or frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants, including a $561 million grant to research the four leading causes of death in the US.
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