NIH to update policies and practices, halting subawards to foreign entities

All federal grants must be reviewed by Trump appointees, executive order directs

President Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating that his appointees will review all funding announcements and grant awards to “verify that each grant dollar benefits Americans instead of lining grantees’ pocketbooks or furthering causes that damage America.”

In The Headlines: A good week for NIH, a bad week for Vinay Prasad

While doing somewhat-routine reporting on this year’s Senate Appropriations Committee bills, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, quickly realized that he was seeing a full bipartisan rejection of President Donald J. Trump’s plan to defund and therefore dismantle biomedical research in the United States.

August 06, 2025

Vol.51 No.30

Capitol Hill

GOP-led Congress rejects Trump’s plans to gut medical research
Senate bill gives NIH a $400 million raise

Bits of good news for NIH flickered consistently over the past week.

The effects of NIH, FDA cuts will be felt for decades, CBO report estimates

A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said that proposed cuts at NIH could lead to a decrease in the number of new drugs that come to market in the next three decades.

July 25, 2025

Vol.51 No.29

By Paul Goldberg