The United States House of Representatives July 3 voted to pass H.R.1, also known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” President Trump signed the bill into law July 4 (The Cancer Letter, July 3, 2025).
The Government Accountability Office, an independent, non-partisan congressional watchdog agency, found that NIH violated the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 when it cancelled nearly 2,000 research grants in an effort to comply with several of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, including “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing” (The Cancer Letter, Jan 24, 2025).
