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Members press HHS on NIH grant terminations and reported clinical-trial disruptions after court ruling
Summary
Members questioned HHS leadership about recent NIH grant cancellations and reported disruptions to clinical trials after a federal judge vacated many grant terminations.
Representative Diana DeGette and other Democrats told the committee the department’s actions to cancel and freeze grants have forced research labs to close and delayed clinical trials. DeGette cited a June federal judge’s decision that vacated a large swath of NIH grant terminations and ordered grants to resume. ‘‘Judge William Young… said that the administration's explanations for terminating the grants were, quote, bereft of reasoning virtually in their entirety,’’ DeGette told the committee, summarizing the court’s findings.
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the panel he will ‘‘comply with the law’’ when asked whether the…
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