Republican Sen. Katie Britt is one of President Donald Trump’s biggest supporters. She shepherded the Laken Riley Act, Trump’s first big piece of anti-immigration legislation, through the Senate, and famously delivered the response to Joe Biden’s final State of the Union address.
But last week, the Trump administration dropped a tactical nuke on her state when the National Institutes of Health announced that it would cap the amount of indirect costs that research institutions can charge the government at 15 percent.