The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information. The ongoing funding freeze is also reflected in internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information and was reiterated to staff in a meeting on Monday. The funding freeze at NIH violates two federal court injunctions, two legal experts said.
The funding freeze at NIH puts all of the research the agency funds at risk. As the primary funder of biomedical research in the United States, NIH-funded research includes everything from cancer treatments to heart disease prevention to stroke interventions.
And now we have the big problem.
Judge says halt the freeze. Trump says make me.
In a functioning country the president doesn’t get to say “make me.” But here we are
Seriously, the current US constitution is less than an interesting artifact that belongs in a museum
can we leave writing nthe next constitution over to a set of lawyers and software developers/hackers to ensure it’s water tight?
One rule somewhere should be that if leaders go against the law, that they go to jail.
Aka, send in the police, arrest the Cheeto
Laws without penalties for breaking them are not laws, only suggestions.
Problem is, they pretty much said he can’t do anything illegal as president. They dropped the leash and are upset they can’t control the dog.
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