Hundreds of researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center are starting to get notice of canceled grants as President Donald Trump's administration slashes $400 million in federal funding to the university.
BREAKING: Immigration officials arrest a second person who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University.
-- The Associated Press (@apnews.com) March 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This FUBAR cutting of medical research is unfortunately not limited to Columbia University but is an essential feature of Musk and his DOGE bros assault on the federal government:
Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agencywww.nytimes.com
Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.
At the Veterans Affairs hospital in Pittsburgh, researchers spent months preparing for a clinical trial of a new drug to treat advanced cancers of the mouth, throat and voice box.
They were ready last month to start enrolling patients--veterans whose cancer had spread to other tissue and who had run out of treatment options.
Then a problem arose.
The hospital was unable to renew the job of a key staff member involved in running the study, a typically routine process thwarted by a hiring freeze imposed under the government-cutting project led by President Trump and Elon Musk. Suddenly, the clinical trial was on hold.
"They were ready to enroll," said Alanna Caffas, the chief executive of the Veterans Health Foundation, which administers the trials. "They had the lab kits on site. They had the drug to dispense. But they couldn't get the clinical research coordinator renewed."
Inefficiency, stupidity and cruellty. But what else would you expect from 2 narcissistic billionaires and their small-minded Republican backers?
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