Maryland lawmakers are demanding RFK Jr. reverse course on critical funding cuts to NIH
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen (Both D-Md.) along with the Maryland Democratic Delegation, Representatives Steny Hoyer, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, Glenn Ivey, Sarah Elfreth, April Delaney, and Johnny Olszewski (all D-Md.) are demanding that the Trump Administration reverse course and rescind guidance that would cause abrupt, sweeping, and deeply damaging cuts to medical research in Maryland and around the country.
“Simply put, the federal funding Maryland institutions have received through NIH is not waste. It funds new breakthroughs discovered by Maryland scientists, doctors, and researchers at world class institutions. It funds new life-saving cures for Maryland patients – from our newborns to our seniors, from children battling rare cancers to our servicemembers injured in battle. It funds thousands of Maryland jobs. And to arbitrarily and illegally cut it threatens Maryland’s health, safety, and economy. Slashing research funding will ultimately harm patients and even cost lives – many of them Marylanders,” wrote the lawmakers.
The lawmakers sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and National Institute of Health (NIH) Acting Director Matthew J. Memoli demanding that the Trump Administration rescind its Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates. Recently issued without warning, this guidance by the National Institutes of Health would illegally cap indirect cost rates that research institutions in Maryland rely on to sustain their groundbreaking, life-saving research and patient clinical trials.
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