Congressional Justifications displaying the details of the President Trump’s budget request for the fiscal year 2026 show that the success rates for Research Project Grants at NCI would plummet from 13.4% in FY2024 to 8.3% during the next fiscal year.
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.
