Planned NIH cuts threatening Americans’ health, senator senators in tense listening
Senators wearing Director Jayanta Bhattachara on the day after 300 NIH employees sent him a burning letter protesting thousands of research projects
The National Institute of Health Health of the US (NIH) (Jay) Bathtacharya confirmed a committee at the Senate Hill Committee in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2025.
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US senators NIH Director Director Jayanta Battacarge to a hearing on 10 June about how his stated support for square science squares without being able to withdraw funds and Stopping Agency Research this year, as well More cuts suggested for its 2026 budget.
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Such a cut “ceases to research the critical Alzheimer of its paths,” Tonya Maurer, a group of Alzheimer, a non-profit-based group of Chicago, Illinois, told NATURE to hear. “We work hard to see this happen.”
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Bhattacharya defended his leadership of the agency – the largest public speaker in the world’s biomedical research – saying that its reputation, the nuh “cannot return to business as usual.” (The NIH is accused of Trump and his allies in the Republican fund the science ‘woke’ and Research about Coronaviruses they say may reveal Covid-19 pandemic.) To help repair agency, Bhattacharya tells senators that he wants to focus on autistic F. Kennedy Jr autistic rise to seeking a response in September.
Letters of revival
Hearing comes the day after 300 nuh employees Bhattacharya sent a burning letter Declare to The massage of the agency’s jobs And canceling thousands of research projects on a growing list of topics said Trump team ‘Sexual Health and Gender
“We are forced to speak if our leadership is in our leadership of humanitarian safety and faithful stewardship of public resources,” staff members write.
They recorded their letter ‘Bethesda Declaration,’ after Maryland Community and Washington DC suburb where most NIH is located. The title also refers to The Declaration of ‘Great Barrington’an open letter signed by Bhattacharya on October 2020 arguing against weak citizens, instead of the children who are infected with children and the hardships to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to reach (Hardimmunity to befriends & Horbar;
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Bhattacharya does not respond to this audience of listening but a statement of 9 June that the Bethesda statement “There are some things that NIH in the current months,” but that “polite months of science.”
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Handling ownership
Many senators, including Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, questioning who was in charge of the NIH, Given reports ordered by the Department of Government of Government of Government Efficiency Agency employees to cut hundreds of specified grants.
“Changes to priorities, transferring from political science, I made decisions,” replied Bhattacharya. Leasing the awards of awards in institutions such as Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “alike in the administration”, he said. (Trump administration says universities like Harvard allows discrimination, including antisemitism, their campuses, and cut or frozen research funding as a result.)
Efficient 40% of NID budget for Fiscal Year 2026 has not been placed in the stone stone, when the first government’s first presidency in 2017, approved by a small increase. However, the body’s composition has changed significantly since then – more than its members are now loyal to Trump.
Comments made at hearing senators have not fully divided by party lines. Susan Collins, a Republican Maine voted to confirm Bhattacharya and RFK Jr, said he was disturbed by the budget suggestion.
“It removes the years of investing in the NIH congress,” he said.
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