“I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday.
But despite Musk’s empty protestation, that is what’s happening. On Friday, the Trump administration—under the Department of Government Efficiency’s direction—announced it would cut billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, scheduled to take effect by Monday. The slashed spending was intended to affect $4 billion in “indirect funding” for research, a category that encompasses administrative overhead, facilities, and operations. But researchers that spoke with The Washington Post decried the move as a “surefire” way to “cripple lifesaving research and innovation,” and one that will contribute to “higher degrees of disease and death in the country.”
In an op-ed Tuesday, Jong-Fast argued that “it’s clear that the Tesla CEO doesn’t seem to realize that by having the government step back from commitments it’s made to world-leading researchers, his department is effectively slowing medical advances for millions of patients who desperately need critical care and is imperiling the economic position of America, a leader in biomedical innovation.”
“Without relief from N.I.H.’s action, these institutions’ cutting-edge work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt,” the lawsuit reads.
Trump has also nominated a virulent vaccine conspiracy theorist—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—to run the Department of Health and Human Services and, by extension, America’s health policy. Kennedy’s stances include unscientific beliefs that AIDS is not caused by HIV and that a large number of vaccines should be stripped from the market. Trump has promised that if confirmed, Kennedy would spend his time—and, presumably, significant funds—at the top of HHS researching the already thoroughly debunked conspiracy that ties vaccine usage to increased autism rates.
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