Research & Treatment
2001
2001-09-09 Republicans restricted federal funding for STEM cell research, limiting life-changing possibilities for regenerative medicine and destroying the path to curing things like Parkinson’s, diabetes, and heart failure.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC558192/
2025 January
2025-01-01 The Trump administration cut $2B in federal grants to NIH, COVID 19 and HIV research studies on misinformation, anything to do with DEI, sickle cell research, and Alzheimer’s research. The administration also tried to cut a $36M grant to UC Davis for dementia research until an appeal was filed and funds were reversed.
https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/04/dementia/
2025-01-31 The administration removed federal health-web resources related to LGBTQ health, adolescent health, HIV, STDs, tuberculosis, civil-rights research, and youth-health monitoring programs.
2025 February
2025-02-03 Congress passed the bipartisan Give Kids a Chance Act to speed development of pediatric cancer drug combinations.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1699227697408915
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=656096720871687
2025 March
2025-03-26 The Trump administration cut COVID research grants, particularly any documents that mentioned gender identity, DEI, or environmental justice.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00954-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00954-y
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40133456/
2025 June
2025-06-16 A judge attempted to rebuke Trump’s meritless cuts to NIH based solely on DEI, but the Supreme Court blocked that judge’s order August 21 2025. Some $800M in grants continued to be cut based on DEI, health disparities, and COVID 19.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/16/judge-rebuke-trump-nih-cuts-00409095
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/g-s1-84441/supreme-court-nih-grants
2025-06-29 During an interview, cancer researcher and Oncologist Dr. Elizabeth Jafee reported a loss of optimism in pancreatic cancer research due to funding cuts.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/cancer-researcher-says-shes-optimistic-about-treatments/
2025 July
2025-07-31 The Trump administration cut UCLA research grants, impacting things like Parkinson’s disease treatment. A judge ordered the restoration of some of these grants because the government failed to provide sufficient justification for terminating them.
2025 August
2025-09-15 Funding for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium was scheduled to expire after March 2026, with the Trump administration halting $4 million annually in federal support.
https://aacrjournals.org/cdnews/news/2629/Pediatric-Brain-Tumor-Initiative-to-End
https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/09/17/childhood-brain-tumor-research-colorado/
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/pediatric-brain-tumor-consortium-disbanding-funding-trump/
https://aacrjournals.org/cdnews/news/2629/Pediatric-Brain-Tumor-Initiative-to-End
https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/09/17/childhood-brain-tumor-research-colorado/
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/pediatric-brain-tumor-consortium-disbanding-funding-trump/
https://www.childrensbraintumorproject.org/2025/08/29/nytimes_pbtc/
2025 September
2025-09-01 The Division of Cancer Prevention and Control was eliminated. Programs for diabetes, heart and stroke prevention, research into long-COVID, Alzheimer’s and aging, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, mental health & addiction, childhood chronic disease, and general chronic disease prevention were eliminated along with it.
https://preventcancer.org/news/concern-proposed-elimination-cancer-prevention-division
2025 October
2025-10-02 Republicans allowed the American Rescue Plan Act to expire.
https://www.healthinsurance.org/glossary/american-rescue-plan/
2026 January
2026-01-22 Republicans banned the use of fetal tissue in research, further limiting life-changing possibilities for regenerative medicine and destroying the path to curing things like Parkinson’s, diabetes, and heart failure
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/health/fetal-tissue-nih-research
2026 April
2026-04-10 Acting CDC director Jay Bhattacharya blocked COVID vaccination reports showing their benefits. Jay Bhattacharya was one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration in 2020 which argued against COVID lockdowns even before vaccines were developed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/cdc-chief-covid-vaccine
https://www.wsav.com/news/cdc-delays-covid-vaccine-benefits-report/
PAY OR SUB WALL https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/covid-vaccine-report-delayed/
Great Barrington Declaration links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration
https://www.hoover.org/research/man-who-talked-back-jay-bhattacharya-fight-against-covid-lockdowns
2026 July
2026-07-17 We were reminded that the slow progression to find the source of cyclosporiasis was largely due to Trump’s cuts to the CDC budget and staff.
https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-cyclospora-lab-doge-downsized-it-last-year/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/health/trump-cyclosporiasis-outbreak-cdc-response-invs
https://www.cdc.gov/cyclosporiasis/outbreaks/07-26/index.html