A federal judge in Massachusetts late Monday granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s cuts to National Institutes of Health research funding after 22 states filed a lawsuit challenging that order.
District Court Judge Angel Kelley of the U.S. District of Massachusetts gave the administration until Friday to file an opposition to the motion and scheduled a hearing for Feb. 21.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, seeks to block a change by the National Institutes of Health that would cut payments to universities, medical centers and researchers studying cancer, rare diseases and other health issues.
