Sanders Warns Trump's $13.5 Billion Funding Cuts Will Imperil Public Health

[Uncle Joe]

“Trump’s war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer,” the Vermont senator said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a May Day rally at city hall on May 1, 2025, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is conducting an “unprecedented and illegal” broadside against science and scientists that will have devastating consequences for regular Americans, according to a report released Tuesday by Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont.

The report, which casts Trump’s actions as a “war on science” that will lead to “preventable suffering” and “needless loss of life,” was compiled by the minority staff with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, where Sanders is the ranking member.

To compile the report, staff interviewed federal health workers, analyzed National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding data, reviewed self-reported data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and more.

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In what the report calls the “clearest sign” of the administration’s effort to defund science, it states that NIH committed $2.7 billion less to research in the first three months of 2025 compared to the same time period last year, representing an effective 35% cut.

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