NIH Workers Risk Retaliation by Openly Protesting Trump Policies

Hundreds of workers at the National Health Institutes – the biggest public financial financing of the world’s biomedical research – Trump administration clearly protested the agency policies of the agency and said that the turmoil and damage to the institution are so great, that they feel that there is no other option.

A letter June 9 was sent to the agency director Jay Bhattacharya, including more than 300 present or former workers – including more than a public quarter of a public. And this is not a small list. These include termination of hundreds of grants that finance scientific and biomedical research throughout the country, firing more than 1,000 employees, tank for young scientists, and ending funds to joint research institutions abroad, a move and old nih workers, other research, as well as rare cancers and infectious diseases.

KFF Health News agreed not to name, because they were not authorized to be afraid of press and retaliation, a NIH worker, “The soul was a breaking,” he said. “This is important for anyone who knows someone who is sick or has any.”

Bhattacharya said, “NIH has some basic misconceptions about the policy guidelines that he has taken in recent months – – Trump witnessed the White House in front of a Senate sub -committee on the budget proposal for NIH. This proposal aims to reduce the agency’s financing by 40% and make 27 institutes and centers eight. And he did it for some fireworks that made many complaints with the deputies, especially the Democrats.

Senat Patty Murray (D-Wash.) On June 10 at the Senate Affairs Sub-Committee hearing, “Trump administration’s currently what the NIH does,” he said.

Bhattacharya said that the budget was “a cooperation with the congress and made it clear that the White House’s proposal was far from being on the stone. However, he took responsibility for the certain actions of the administration without the participation of congress. Bhattacharya asked by Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.

Bhattacharya, a record obtained by KFF Health News at a town hall meeting with NIH employees in May, claimed that some NIH-backed research focusing on racial and ethnic minorities are “ideological in nature and this does not advance the health and prosperity of any of the workers.

“They actually do what they say they say,” a worker said, “And he cuts all the fields of science that are critical to understand how patient care and patient consequences will be improved.”

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