Monica Bertagnolli and Brett Guthrie named Friends 2024 Cancer Leadership Award recipients

Trump administration broke law by canceling DEI research grants, GAO finds

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).

USPSTF doesn’t lean right or left—it’s about data, not politics

Multiple components of the healthcare and public health systems are currently under scrutiny. One of them is reportedly the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF: “Task Force”), established in 1984 and managed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It was created to maintain an ongoing evaluation of disease prevention and screening interventions that...

FY25 paylines drop to 4th percentile—a historic low—as NCI braces for Trump’s FY26 budget cuts

NCI announced that the paylines for R01 grants for established and new investigators are expected to drop to the 4th percentile—a historic low for the institute.

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.

Supreme Court lifts lower-court freeze on RIFs

The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily lifted a lower court’s freeze on the Trump administration’s reductions in force, or RIFs, freeing the government to continue their large-scale restructuring of the federal government.

Medical, cancer groups respond to Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becoming law

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).

July 11, 2025

Vol.51 No.27

By Jacquelyn Cobb

Monica Bertagnolli and Brett Guthrie named Friends 2024 Cancer Leadership Award recipients

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