- The Trump administration’s vow to cut $4 billion in medical research targets so-called indirect funding, which he claims to be wasteful. But these costs are key to allowing medical institutions to exist, with scientists decrying the budget moves as a death blow that could lead top American scientists to jump ship to China and alter the scientific exchange of data.
Recently, the medical research communities saw their livelihoods flash before their eyes as the Trump administration announced the world’s leading benefactor in medical research grants was being put on a diet.
