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22 states sue to block new NIH funding policy—court puts it on hold | The first Trump administration tried this, and Congress passed a rule to block it.
The first Trump administration tried this, and Congress passed a rule to block it.
On Friday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a sudden change to how it handles the indirect costs of research—the money that pays for things like support services and facilities maintenance. Today, a coalition of 22 states filed a suit that seeks to block the new policy, alleging it violated both a long-standing law and a budget rider that Congress had passed in response to a 2017 attempt by Trump to drastically cut indirect costs. In response, the Democratic-controlled Congress of 2018 managed to attach a rider to an appropriations bill that prevented the NIH from spending any money to develop or implement any policy that alters the then-present system of determining indirect cost rates.
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