STAT+: Collins and fellow GOP senators speak out in opposition to Trump’s cuts to biomedical research
Trump's canceled NIH grants and HHS layoffs threaten U.S. biomedical leadership, Collins says, as she calls for funding to be restored.
WASHINGTON — There was broad bipartisan support at a Senate hearing Wednesday to reverse course on the Trump administration’s cuts to federally funded biomedical research.
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), the Republican chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, kicked off the hearing with a rebuke of the Trump administration for cutting federal biomedical research funding, cancelling grants, and laying off federal health department employees, and said the changes must be reversed.
“Proposed funding cuts, the firing of essential federal scientists, and policy uncertainties threaten to undermine the foundation for our nation’s global leadership,” she said Wednesday at the hearing, titled “Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation.”
