Federal judge blocks Trump’s NIH funding cuts

A federal judge is preventing the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding. After temporarily blocking the National Institutes of Health cuts last month, a federal judge is putting the cuts on hold for longer, while lawsuits proceed. Scientists argue that a drastic reduction in medical research funding will endanger patients and delay new lifesaving discoveries. The Trump administration has dismissed some of the funding expenses as “overhead,” but universities and hospitals argue they’re far more critical.